Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/07/05 17:06

Jake wrote:

> In message <1bs7jtot208wr$.1dmpqzozm7es8.dlg@40tude.net>, rf
> <rf@invalid.com> writes
>> Jake wrote:
>>
>> [opening new window]
>>
>>> Ever been to a site which, with badly-tested flash and/or
>>> javascript, prevents the back-button from ever working?
>>
>> And what does your solution do? Breaks the back button.
>
> You've lost me there, I'm afraid.
>
> As you've opened the page in a new window -- how is the back button
> relevant?

The new window has nothing in the history, so clicking the back button
does nothing. Ergo, it is broken.

> Anyway, as I've said -- much easier to kill a window than to reload
> the browser.

Aha, here's the realization. If your browser was maximized, and a page
opened in a new maximized window on top of it, how would you know it
*was* a new window? And it has a broken back button... So, what do you
do? You go back to Google and pick another site. Sometime later in the
day, when you are finished surfing, you close this "new" window and you
find that original window still there... but long since forgotten.

--
-bts
-When motorcycling, never follow a pig truck

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