Posted by Els on 05/21/05 15:51

Andrew Donaldson wrote:

> 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!

Thanks <g>

>> 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.

Acorn - a name I hear mentioned by computer dinosaurs every now and
then :-)

>> 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.

Well, recently I noticed some (to me odd) behaviour on a UK train
times site - I wanted to compare two different routes, and I decided
to look up one in one tab, and already the second in another tab.
As soon as I started the second one, the first one got aborted.

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