Archive for June, 2008

Death of the Back Button

I’m a big fan of ExtJs, and my current project is using a lot of it to enhance the user’s experience.  But, today I received an email listing a number of small issues with the code currently in production.  The one that struck me the most was how the “Back” button doesn’t work sometimes.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much I can do about it.  When JavaScript-based tools take over the UI to enhance the user’s experience, the “Back” button is left behind.  I believe the death of the “Back” button in our future.  What can someone possibly tell the client that will make sense to non-programmer ears?

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