- From: Grahame Grieve <grahame@kestral.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:07:37 +1000
- To: www-talk@w3.org
>>But IE 5 might have a bug regarding this must-revalidate feature: it >>doesn't redisplay a page when you revisit it from your history with Back >>and Forward keys until you hit enter in the location field, or something >>like that. > >That is not a bug in IE5, that is the exact behavior required by the >standard. Back is supposed to show the old page you have seen before, >not fetch a new copy. See for example section 13.13 of rfc2616. It's not only IE5 either but this is obtuse to a user. why should a user perceive any difference between a page they got from going back and a page they got from going forward? In highly dynamic web applications this caching of back business is a big problem with the http standard I settle this by trying to prevent the user from desiring to use the back button at all. in some ways this only makes things worse, of course, but there you go. my stategies are to provide key links on toolbars and make sure back links are integrated with the text where the user would perceive a reason to go back. And I always do a redirect after a post. has any one got others? Grahame
Received on Tuesday, 29 June 1999 08:05:11 UTC