Hashchange Not Firing When User Clicks On Same Link

I'm creating an HTML and Javascript client for running in browser which talks to REST API. I'm using RouteMap to set my URLs. So I've kept a convention something like this http://

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For #1, you probably want to attach a handler to the link click event. That way you can tell if the link is being clicked. When I use onhashchange, I always attach something to the click event to assist polyfills for onhashchange, so at least I can tell when it's failing.

For #2, I want to point out that having automatic stuff change the user's history is problematic. You could fill someone's history with minute, meaningless hash changes. I recommend only changing the history when the user actually interacts. Short of that, HTML5 does offer pushState and popState. Reference