This little gem ensures a consistent update of the browser history (both url and title) in an Single Page Application in a conventional manner

Simple_HTML5_history_API_wrapper.js

if ('history' in window) {
    window.history.__pushState = window.history.pushState;
    window.history.pushState = function (_data, _title, _url) {
        window.history.__pushState(null, null, _url);
        window.document.title = _title;
    };

    window.history.__replaceState = window.history.replaceState;
    window.history.replaceState = function (_data, _title, _url) {
        window.history.__replaceState(null, null, _url);
        window.document.title = _title;
    };
}