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Posted by Andrew Donaldson on 05/21/05 15:51
Els wrote:
> [new window inheriting history from old window - back in 1996]
>
> I have never heard of it (I got on the web first time in 2002)
Wow - you got very good very quickly!
> but maybe they got rid of it cause it could be a security risk?
It wasn't consciously got rid of, development of it all but ceased in
about 1998 when the company (Acorn) stopped doing hardware and desktop
software and morphed into several other companies. The browser was
called, believe it or not, Browse - Acorn had a thing about minimalist,
descriptive names. I recall Browse was claimed to have the HTML 4
compliance and PNG support of any browser at the time, but don't now if
this was true.
> I don't know much about cookies and sessions and anything related, but
> istm that if in a new window you go back to where you were in the old
> window, and log in somewhere, it could interfere with what you were
> doing in the old window. I'm thinking filling out forms and credit
> card stuff. No idea really :-)
Me neither :-) That's a good point that hadn't occurred to me, but this
was before online transactions were commonplace anyway so it was maybe
not an issue then. I'd hope that such sessions were more robust than
that now anyway, since the same interference could be caused just by
opening a new window part way through a session and proceeding then
returning to the session in the original window, I think.
Andrew
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