IE vs Firefox Links (hash vs htm5)

Question

On my site i use html5mode history API for angular routing and when it's not supported it goes back to use hash mode. /#/

html5 mode : http://www.main.com/something

hash mode (ex IE9) : http://www.main.com/#/something

The problem being if a IE9 user paste a link (www.main.com/#/something) to a FF/Chrome user, its not gonna work.

how can i handle this? - so the URL (just the appearance of it at least) is identical/usable for both browser types ?

Answer 1

Try setting the hashPrefix to "#":

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true).hashPrefix('#');