- From: Bill Mason <whatwg@accessibleinter.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:07:53 -0700
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Mason wrote: >> 3) The back button is not considered reliable as a navigation aid if >> target=_blank is not in use. > > Can you elaborate on why this is? I don't particularly believe that this is true. I made that statement in accepting for the sake of argument someone else's assertion from earlier in the thread: [1] > Because the Back button is a horribly awkward interface for navigating, > especially for getting back to pages you visited a few minutes ago. (In > some browsers the Back button has a visible associated menu, but it's > hard to open -- and it relies on page <title>s, which readers probably > didn't notice when first scanning those pages, again because of poor > browser design.) [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/011104.html -- Bill Mason Accessible Internet whatwg at accessibleinter.net http://accessibleinter.net/
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