- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:08:33 +1100
- To: Kenny <kennyheaton@gmail.com>
- CC: public-webapi@w3.org
Kenny wrote: > I have to agree with Sylvain, that I think users would evolve as web > application do and the need for that back button might become > unnecessary. I very strongly disagree. The back and forward buttons have been for a very long time and always will be fundamental to the way web browsing works. Any web application that tries to work around the use of the back/forward buttons in a way that breaks their functionality if used is broken. Instead, applications should learn to work with the buttons as the user expects. I could be mistaken, but I believe Gmail used to seriously break the back button when it first came out and it was one of the worst usability problems with it, though it seems to be fixed now. Gmail still seriously breaks the forward button, in fact it completely disables it some how, and it's so annoying (at least it would be if I actually used my gmail account). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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