Comments on: Death of the Back Button http://www.thephpgrind.net/2008/06/04/death-of-the-back-button/ PHP News and Articles Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:37:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: gcornelisse http://www.thephpgrind.net/2008/06/04/death-of-the-back-button/#comment-342 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:40:20 +0000 http://www.thephpgrind.net/2008/06/04/death-of-the-back-button/#comment-342 I'll take a look. I'd be interested in seeing if it can handle application level history. It isn't so much that the Back button doesn't work. Its more so that the Back button sends you back farther than you expected. This happen because you're basically running a mini-application on one *page*. For instance a feed reader or email client. I click to read a couple messages, and expect the Back button to let me navigate back through the messages I clicked and read. The reality is that I never actually left the page. Everything happened in the browser without changing the URL. Therefore, the Back button was useless in this scenario. A scenario that happens more often now that we use more JS UI tools and load our data with AJAX calls. I’ll take a look. I’d be interested in seeing if it can handle application level history. It isn’t so much that the Back button doesn’t work. Its more so that the Back button sends you back farther than you expected. This happen because you’re basically running a mini-application on one *page*. For instance a feed reader or email client. I click to read a couple messages, and expect the Back button to let me navigate back through the messages I clicked and read. The reality is that I never actually left the page. Everything happened in the browser without changing the URL. Therefore, the Back button was useless in this scenario. A scenario that happens more often now that we use more JS UI tools and load our data with AJAX calls.

]]> by: kevinkevin http://www.thephpgrind.net/2008/06/04/death-of-the-back-button/#comment-341 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:12:32 +0000 http://www.thephpgrind.net/2008/06/04/death-of-the-back-button/#comment-341 Hey saw this and had a thought for you - lucky you right... I occasionally use YUI for some js tasks and on thing I noticed they had which *may* assist you is the history manager. I believe they use it in conjucntion with the client side pagination. This history manager seems to allow you to access the back button. maybe that is a place to look for a solution?? Hey saw this and had a thought for you - lucky you right…

I occasionally use YUI for some js tasks and on thing I noticed they had which *may* assist you is the history manager. I believe they use it in conjucntion with the client side pagination. This history manager seems to allow you to access the back button.

maybe that is a place to look for a solution??

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