@Stephen_PhilbinFeb 20.2007 — #Certainly not that I know of. Javascript is incapable of altering what appears in the address bar for security reasons. What's so bad about reloading the page?
@ecksleyMay 26.2008 — #Not to unearth an old thread, but to address your question: If you are using Flash or Ajax/jQuery such an option could be very useful.
When you change sections within a Flash piece it could call to some JS function and update the URL. This would allow for a unique bookmark for different sections of the site. When the Flash is initially loaded it can check the URL for this variable and go directly to the section associated with it.
A reload would work of course, but with Flash and jQuery able to produce beautiful/asynchronous transitions it would defeat the purpose.
Too bad there isn't a way to do this. Thanks though.
@ecksleyMay 26.2008 — #This Seems like an interesting work around. Uses the old URL "#" or what I might call an anchor link to amend the URL without reloading the page.
You would then need some JS in the page to extract that value, recognize it and act accordingly when the page is revisited.