[imp] Use of Back Button in IMP & Vanishing Left Nav

[Eugene Kerner]

Uhm,

1. Its done with page cache control rather than counting the number of times 
js has to hestory minus.
2. Page refreshes dont effect the history.

I realise that the future for the history navigation in web browsers is 
about to bring change to cater for DHTML/AJAX/etc, but please, there are 
ways to manage your page navigation and the "too hard basket" as you suggest 
is not one of them.

Rgds,
Eugene.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael M Slusarz" <slusarz at horde.org>
To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [imp] Use of Back Button in IMP & Vanishing Left Nav


> Quoting Eugene Kerner <ekerner at ekerner.com>:
>
>> My 2 bobs worth again ...
>>
>> To my fellow developers out there: "Dont use the back button" is not  a 
>> solution.
>>
>> So many websites now are breaking the back button with things like  ajax, 
>> and then rather than fixing their mistake they are sayiong  saying "stuff 
>> it the user shouldnt use the back button".
>> But guess what, the user will use the back button, so all you are  doing 
>> is making your site or application dodgy and unprofessional.
>> The biggest offender is facebook.
>
> This is an ignorant statement.  How is one supposed to fix this?   There 
> is absolutely no way to reliably/consistently work around  browser UI 
> design, which is inaccessible to anything we can do  remotely via code. 
> (We tried capturing back button presses in DIMP  1.x, but it is impossible 
> to catch all cases so it has been removed).
>
> What you are saying is that dynamic refreshing of page elements must  not 
> be done, and all page interaction must be accompanied by a total  refresh 
> of all page elements.  Seems like a gigantic step backwards  IMHO.
>
> michael
>
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