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Subject: Re: Sites that don't let "Back" button work

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 01:45:07 09/13/99

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On September 13, 1999 at 04:14:14, Shep wrote:

>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.
>
>---
>Shep

Thanks Shep. The last advice was good.

Ralf



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