Does onHashChange work in Safari?

Question

Does onHashChange or hashChange work in Safari? I tested it with Safari 4.0.4 on Windows 7 and it doesn't work for me.

If it doesn't work, is there any solution to track if the hash has changed?

Answer 1

In our app we poll to check for changes:

$b.hashCheck = setInterval(
    function(){
        if ( window.location.hash !== $b.C.current_hash){
            $b.C.current_hash = window.location.hash;

            //call the on change action here

        }
    },$b.C.hashCheckDelay
);

$b is the global object we use for our namespace and hashCheckDelay was empirically set at 120ms.
While it looks a bit sad to do this kind of process, there isn't any performance issue on any browser we tested.

Answer 2

In Safari 4.0.4 it's not working yet but in the latest one works fine. And I didn't find any acceptable solutions to track if the hash has changed for those browsers which don't support onHashChange.