angular/angular.js — Issue #772: $location should not intercept #links (in html4 mode)
Author: vojtajina
Created: 2012-03-08 05:59:26+00:00
State: open

So that clicking on hash link navigates to anchor, even if the url did not changed (hash was already set to the value).
Or maybe even better, $anchorScroll might intercept the links as well (as well as watching location).
(that might work even on old browsers, where hashbang urls are used).