Would it be good to make navigator.request accept anchor DOM elements, so it can figure out internally what the path should be?

[PaulTondeur]

$("a").on("click", function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    navigator.request(e.target)
});

We might also allow the request to take the event parameter so we can do:

$("a").on("click", navigator.request);

In that case the navigator should prevent the default, find out the href of the clicked element and set that state. Prior to preventing the default we might want to check first if it will be a valid state to navigate to?
This provides a convenient way to request states from anchors on the page. But maybe navigator.request() starts to do too much magic?