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Comment by tyre | original | HTML Can Do That
[−]tyre · 2026-08-20 Thu 17:00 UTC · link
This is possible and, in my experience building them, the norm. SPAs have routers and update navigation state, including history for browser Back/Forward
[−]gunalx · 2026-08-20 Thu 17:25 UTC · link
Yes true. But also way to often neglected.
[−]preg_match · 2026-08-21 Fri 00:52 UTC · link
Right but most of the time they don’t work. For example, LinkedIn, and instagram. I understand they have apps but… come on.
[−]account42 · 2026-08-21 Fri 11:54 UTC · link
It's the norm to try to re-implement browser functionality in JS but it is very far from the norm for the re-implementation to work as well and as reliably as the native browser functionality.