Crud, is this seriously impossible?

[jlizarraga]

Setting window.location.hash to nothing reloads the page no matter what? Say it isn't so!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269044/remove-fragment-in-url-with-javascript-w-out-causing-page-reload

http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=149356

These posts are about a year old, so I'm wondering if a new technique has been discovered to make this possible.


Thanks!