push page to browser history without navigating to it

[brianmay]

Currently if I want to push an item to the browser history, I have to navigate to that page, which AFAIK completely replaces the current page with the new page:

let navigator = navigator();
navigator.push(Route::Details {id});

But sometimes I just want to be able to popup a Dialog box and push the new URL to the browser stack without entirely replacing the page. For example, if the user clicks an item I want to be able to show the details as a dialog.

Is this possible?

Or is this a bad idea?

[ealmloff]

It should only replace the parts of the page/layout that have changed. There is a bug in debug mode today that causes more state to be wiped than is required. See #3235 for more information

[brianmay]

OK, that would explain why changing links did seem excessively slow. Fixing this would be really good.

But I think(?) not quite what I am asking for here.

Lets say my app renders a list of items under http://localhost/animals.

1. Penguins.
2. Emus.
3. Kookaburras.
4. Spotted spotted quoll.

I want it to pop up a dialog box when I click an item, and I want this dialog to appear on top of the list. So that if I close the dialog I can show the list again, without the complexities of trying to render the exact same view of the same list again.

This is relatively easy to do. But the URL in the browser is still pointing to http://localhost/animals. If the user reloads the page or copies the link, then the selected item will be forgotten.

And if I use navigator.push to go to http://localhost/animals/1 , say to go then I have lost the list view.

I hope this explanation makes sense!

However, not really sure here. Maybe I am on the wrong approach entirely.