This thread is pretty old, but in case others come across it while searching, using the Backbone router as shown in this example from Jonathan works in modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc).

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However, it is not working for me in IE. Matt's solution appears to work in all browsers for me. FYI.

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Cheers,

Ryan