Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/31/07 14:48

Wayne wrote:
> On May 31, 5:45 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
>> On 30 May, 22:06, Wayne <wayne.wald...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have an application that has over 150 pages. Within each page there
>>> are between 2 and 10 Iframes. As you can imagine the back button
>>> doesn't work very well.
>> Ditch the iframes, go to server-side inclusion, make the Back button
>> work properly.
>>
>> It's not only a practical fix for the back button, it gives the users
>> a better result than trying to disable it totally.
>
> I would love to, but this is a vender application and it is not an
> option.
>

Time to find a new vendor! This whole argument is silly. It's like the
old joke "Doctor it hurts when a do this" "Well stop doing it!" The back
button is there for a reason, don't disable it--fix your problem and you
problem is fundamentally your design.

Do you know what happens when visitors go to a page on a website and
cannot find a way to back out? I'll tell you as yesterday I just talked
my mother through navigating a website over the phone, (She one of those
folks that managed to avoid computers for the last 20 years):

They (with maybe some level of panic) *close* the browser!


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Take care,

Jonathan
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