pushstate - having trouble updating url without reloading page

I have been reading, researching, and trying to integrate a quick solution to take advantage of HTML5 pushstate in my current app. I have briefly looked at the gwt-pushstate project which I am impressed with and I may consider for the future, but right now I just need to get it working. I have looked at this on stack overflow to try to mimic what Manolo suggests, I have even explored the gwtproject.org source code. The problem is strangely this, it is working perfectly on IE10 which I know is really weird. Every other browser I have tried, IE11 and the latest Chrome reloads the page. I feel like I am missing something simple and perhaps very obvious, I am hoping a second pair of eyes can easily see what I am doing wrong.

My project uses an MVP pattern and I still have the standard GWT url pattern with the # in it. In my view I have what I call sub views that I want to navigate to and update the url for the benefits of history flow. It is all in the same Place and in my case this logically makes since. When I click on a navigation menu item I want to update the url as I reveal the sub view UI. My current url pattern is something like this: 

http://127.0.0.1:8888/?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997#StandardView:parameter1&viewType=SomeSubView

The "viewType=SomeSubView" is the part that will change. In the future I would like to enhance the url to look better, I know it is a bit ugly but just trying to get working, then improve from there. When I click a navigation menu item to go to a new sub view this is my code that uses pushstate:

void push( String subView ){

     String pageUrl = "#StandardView:parameter1&viewType="+subView;

     // Preserve QueryString, useful for the gwt.codesvr parameter in dev-mode.

     pageUrl = pageUrl.replaceFirst("(#.*|)$", Window.Location.getQueryString() + "$1");

     

     // Set the page to load in the URL

     Properties history = JsUtils.prop(window, "history");

     JsUtils.runJavascriptFunction(history, "pushState", null, null, pageUrl);

}

So now can someone help me figure out what I am doing wrong. It is just really weird that IE10 works with this.

Thanks,

Will

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