Building fast and functional sites is a challenge with which most Web developers are familiar. Loading a new page every time the user clicks a link is slow. Fetching all content dynamically effectively disables the back button. Working with hashes is better, but still not ideal.

Internet Explorer 10 in the Windows Developer Preview eliminates the compromise by adding support for HTML5 History. The pushState, replaceState and popstate APIs provide fine-grained control over the behavior of the back button and the URL presented to the user for dynamic content. Together these APIs help you improve the performance of your site without sacrificing usability.

If you’re not already familiar with the HTML5 History APIs, think of pushState as being the dynamic equivalent of navigating to another page. Similarly, replaceState is much like location.replace. The difference is these APIs leave the current page intact when updating the session history by storing states instead of pages. Both pushState and replaceState take three parameters: a data object, a title, and an optional URL.

Tony Ross, in this tutorial exchange views on  HTML5 History APIs. He also says that provide a great deal of flexibility for building responsive and usable Web sites. With some care taken for legacy browsers, these APIs can be used today to great effect.

To go through this tutorial visit: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/client/html5-history-in-ie10.html#fbid=lz3kcncNc9W