Why does the before-visit event not get called when navigating via history?

[joelmoss]

This is driving me mad, and I can't understand why this would be the case. Is it a technical limitation, or a design decision?

[sstephenson]

It's a technical limitation. The purpose of the before-visit event is to give your app a hook for canceling application visits before they begin. In the case of history navigation, the user has already clicked the Back button and the URL has changed. There's no way to cancel that.

[joelmoss]

The problem is that I can usually get around that using the beforeunload event, but that won;'t work with TL . Oh well :( thx anyway

[sstephenson]

See #146 for an alternative to the beforeunload event.

[joelmoss]

Yeah I've seen that, but I want to be able to cancel the event (navigating) based on some behaviour