Author: Shep
Date: 01:14:14 09/13/99
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On September 12, 1999 at 02:29:04, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:
>On September 11, 1999 at 19:43:39, Ralf Elvsén wrote:
>
>>Have you constructed that site? If so, maybe you want to know
>>that my backbutton (Netscape) becomes disabled when I try to
>>get back here...
>>
>>Ralf
>
>After experimenting, I presume you refer to the site:
>http://www.smartchess.com/SmartChessOnline/SmartChessOnline/OctNov%201997/fowell.htm
>
>since I also use Netscape, and have the same problem with this site,
>and not with the other site I mentioned:
>http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Chess/Software/Macintosh/
>(I also use Netscape).
>
>No, I didn't make that site, but I have seen that behaviour with
>several sites (and very annoying it is). The "Go" menu is the easiest
>way I've found to back out of such sites. I don't know whether this
>behaviour is peculiar to Netscape or not.
Some technobabble about this:
This behaviour is not Netscape-specific. The URL is actually a redirection to
another page with 0 seconds timeout. So when you try to go back one page, the
redirection immediately kicks you back (or in that case, "forward") to the page
you were at before.
(This is accomplished by adding
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;url:http://bla.com/index.html">
to the header of the respective page.)
Ways to get out are:
1) Click "Back" two times very quickly, or
2) Click "Back", hold down mouse button and choose top entry from the menu
that appears.
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Shep
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