- From: Danyel Ceccaldi <dceccald@elaine.crcg.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:53:58 -0500
- To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Hi folks, It would be nice to have a href-tag <A HREF="Return to last entry in history"> (you could implement a BACK-Button inside the HTML-Widget) >1) I can't change history lists with current browsers You MUST NOT. It's private. But it would be possible to do the things you want to do by a safe command language on client side, which has the ability to store information/objects. A browser, who still has a safe command language is Java from Sun (http://java.sun.com/). By Danny The mail which I refer to above (There was no subject or author-email). >BTW, while the expires header is adequate for disabling cacheing, it >is not adequate for controlling history list contents, see the first >few messages in this thread. If you, as a dynamic form author, want >to make the history list never point to an old version, you are out of >luck. > >As a dynamic service author, I have often wanted to have the ability >to mess with the history lists of the users. Having this abilitity, I >could improve the safety and navigation speed (no more backing up >through forms) of my service. > >However, > >1) I can't change history lists with current browsers >2) I can't think of any general yet safe command language for > communicating history list manipulations to the browser >3) dynamic history lists have the potential of being very confusing >4) I don't think all users will appreciate me changing their history > lists >5) I certainly would hate to have my history list `improved' by every > bozo with a bright idea whose site I happen to browse >6) a mechanism for changing history lists opens a whole new realm of > subtle security considerations. > >>Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects 617/721-6100 >>nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/ > >Koen.
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