docs($location): clarify guide regarding link handling #8908
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The trick with setting @petebacondarwin Could you review this doc change? /cc @IgorMinar |
The trick with setting `<base href=".">` has not worked since Angular 1.2.0. It is also misleading that it talks about `$routeProvider.otherwise` which is not important in this case. Related to angular#8869
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| - Opening a regular URL in a legacy browser -> redirects to a hashbang URL | |||
| - Opening hashbang URL in a modern browser -> rewrites to a regular URL | |||
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| Note that in this mode, Angular intercepts all links and updates the url in a way | |||
| that never performs a full page reload (see "Html link rewriting" below). | |||
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I don't think this is the case if you don't provide an otherwise() clause to $routeProvider
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This is independent of $route being loaded or not. If the url of the link matches the <base> we always do a event.preventDefault() on the click event for links in $location.
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Oh right. Of course! In that case we should be saying:
Note that in this mode, Angular intercepts all links (subject to the "Html link rewriting" rules below) and updates the url in a way that never performs a full page reload.
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| When you use HTML5 history API mode, you will need different links in different browsers, but all you | |||
| When you use HTML5 history API mode, you will not need different links in different browsers, but all you | |||
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... you will not need special hashbang links. All you have to do ...
The trick with setting `<base href=".">` has not worked since Angular 1.2.0. It is also misleading that it talks about `$routeProvider.otherwise` which is not important in this case. Related to angular#8869 Closes angular#8908
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