PUBLIC MARKS with tags url & library

History.js gracefully supports the HTML5 History/State APIs (pushState, replaceState, onPopState) in all browsers.

An AMD compatible utility to parse urls and provide easy access to their attributes (such as the protocol, host, port etc), path segments, querystring parameters, fragment parameters and more.

URI.js is a javascript library for working with URLs. It offers a "jQuery-style" API (Fluent Interface, Method Chaining) to read and write all regular components and a number of convenience methods like .directory() and .authority(). URI.js offers simple, yet powerful ways of working with query string, has a number of URI-normalization functions and converts relative/absolute paths.

Flagrant Badassery: parseUri(): Split URLs in JavaScript