router improvements

README.md

@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ you can then register your object with the mediator and the messages that you ma
 - schema is now an object
 - mvc.Control events can now be given a priority to order them
 - more tests
+- router uses HTML5 where possible and you can pass in parameters to hide the fragment
 
 #### v0.8 ####
 

router.js

@@ -10,29 +10,28 @@ goog.provide('mvc.Router');
 goog.require('goog.array');
 goog.require('goog.events');
 goog.require('goog.History');
+goog.require('goog.history.Html5History');
 
 /**
  * @constructor
+ *
+ * @param {boolean=} opt_noFragment set to true to hide fragment when using
+ * HTML5 history
+ * @param {string=} opt_blankPage url to a blank page - needed if HTML5 is not
+ * available and you don't want to show the fragment
  */
-mvc.Router = function() {
-    this.checkhistorysupport();
+mvc.Router = function(opt_noFragment, opt_blankPage) {
+    this.history_ = goog.history.Html5History.isSupported()?
+        new goog.history.Html5History():
+        new goog.History(opt_noFragment, opt_blankPage);
+    if(this.history_.setUseFragment)
+        this.history_.setUseFragment(!opt_noFragment);
     goog.events.listen(this.history_, goog.history.EventType.NAVIGATE,
         this.onChange_, false, this);
     this.history_.setEnabled(true);
     this.routes_ = [];
 };
-/**
-*checks if HTML5History is supported
-*/
-mvc.prototype.checkhistorysupport=function (){
-    if(goog.history.Html5History.isSupported()){
-    this.history_= new goog.history.Html5History();this.history_.setUseFragment(false);
-}
-else
-{
-    this.history_=new goog.History();
-}
-};
+
 /**
  * pass through the fragment for the URL
  *
@@ -51,7 +50,11 @@ mvc.Router.prototype.navigate = function(fragment) {
  */
 mvc.Router.prototype.route = function(route, fn) {
     if(goog.isString(route))
-        route = new RegExp('^' + goog.string.regExpEscape(route).replace(/\\:\w+/g, '(\\w+)').replace(/\\\*/g, '(.*)').replace(/\\\[/g,"(").replace(/\\\]/g,")?") + '$');
+        route = new RegExp('^' + goog.string.regExpEscape(route)
+            .replace(/\\:\w+/g, '(\\w+)')
+            .replace(/\\\*/g, '(.*)')
+            .replace(/\\\[/g,"(")
+            .replace(/\\\]/g,")?") + '$');
     this.routes_.push({route: route, callback: fn});
 };