window.history.pushState not going back in history

Question

I have a little problem experimenting with the history.pushstate event. I set it up so that the url of the page would be the actual URL of the page loaded via AJAX and that works just fine.

I understood that it should automaticaly create a history, loading the pages previously loaded. unfortunatly hat doesn't happen and when i click back of forward the url does change but not the page. Can you help me? Here is my simplified code:

    function hijackLinks() {
        $('a').live("click", function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            loadPage(e.target.href);    
            direction = $(this).attr('class');        
        });   
    }


    function loadPage(url) {
        if (url === undefined) {
            $('body').load('url', 'header:first,#content,footer', hijackLinks);
        } else {
            $.get(url, function (data) {
                $('body').append(data);
                 window.history.pushState(url, url, url);

                if (direction === "leftnav") {
                   //DO STUFF
                }
                if (direction !== "leftnav") {
                   //DO STUFF
                }

                setTimeout(function () {
                  //DO STUFF
                },1000);
            });
        }
    }
    $(document).ready(function () {
        loadPage(); 

    });

Answer 1

Figured it out, I just added:

    window.addEventListener("popstate", function(e) {
    loadPage(location.pathname);
});

to the end of the page