top.location.replace creates history item in Safari/Chrome

Question

At this point we have a photogallery which uses hashvalues to determine which picture is currently showed to the user, and to support sending the page to a friend and such. Something like:

http://url/photos/#photo-4

When we have loaded the corresponding picture after clicking the next or previous button, we change the url according to the JS 1.1 specification using:

top.location.replace(url.url + hash);

Our wanted behaviour is that no history item is being created, so users can use the back button to leave the photogallery, instead of using the back button to see the previous pictures.

In IE and Firefox the method works like a charm, but Safari and Chrome do make a history item for the changed url. I have found alot of samples how to create history items when using the hash for navigating like this, but I want to do this the other way. Any clue?

Answer 1

Have you looked at assigning your hash using window.location.hash = newHash instead of replacing the entire url?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location

Answer 2

There seems to be no solution at this point.