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The downside to that is that if you click through all of the images, pressing back in your browser won't take you to the previous page; instead you have to press back many times, cycling back through all the images, until you eventually are taken back to your previous page.

That's what replaceState() is for. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browse...

Then the page will require JS to be enabled.

Just curious, are we calling anchors hashtags now?

I didn't mean anchor; that's an implementation detail. If it were JavaScript it could just grab it from the location and no anchor anchor tag (as opposed to external link anchor tag) would be needed. I meant fragment identifier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier Hash tag is just quicker to say.

thanks benatkin :)