371935 - Fragment identifier, if edited by hand, doesn't reflect further changes by JS

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 302575

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob Kinyon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

RIAs use fragment identifiers (window.location.hash) to represent application state. A common practice is to provide a setInterval() to poll for changes to the fragment identifier and update the application state accordingly. When the fragment identifier is edited by hand, then updated by JS, the updates by JS aren't reflected in the URI in the location bar.

An self-contained testcase is provided at http://pastebin.mozilla.org/4251

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the testcase provided
2. Click on the link.
3. Edit the fragment identifier in the Location bar and hit Enter
4. Click on the link.
5. Refresh to see that the fragment identifier is indeed #apple, but wasn't displayed.


Expected Results:  
After a manual edit, the location bar should still be responsive to fragment identifier edits by JS.