Inspiring

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behavior of browser 'back' button

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
July 22, 2010
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Will someone please explain why the following happens because it is just, plain bad design.

Consider a forum which has multiple pages. Go to, say, the second page and read a thread. Now hit the 'back' button on your browser. Surprise! You are now back to the top of the first page in the forum!

As I said before, such a design is just plain stupid.

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pwillener

Legend

It is inconceivable to me who thought out that concept, or why...?

However, there is a way around it, as was explained to me when I raised the same subject some time ago.

When you are reading a topic (on page 2, or 3, ..., of a forum), you will see a link on top of the topic

Up to Discussions in Forum comments

Click on this link, and it will bring you back to the forum page from where you started reading that topic.

Claudio González

Legend

pat (sorry, bu

t I don't know the workaround for turning this u

pside down), that's most definitely not my point. I do

n't see why users should have to keep a several pages manual of wor

karounds by their side to navigate more or less easily around these forums. We are not talking about the site of an obscure company with a couple of freeware programs, but of the site of Adobe, which in my opinion at least, should set the standards for the rest. Things like having to scroll down to see the first topic in the list are not a good example for the industry.

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pwillener

Legend

Claudio - no problem, I can read my name upside-down and downside-up

The workaround that I reprinted is in no way a solution, but I was happy to have it and use it when the Flash Player forum after the 10.1 release was daily several pages long with new and updated topics.

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shunithD

Inspiring

My dear boy...

Precisely.... these forums (fora) have been moaned and groaned about ever they first came to existence... by that i mean in the current avatar. But to explain the behaviour, they probably use some kind of frames... which links to the home page rather than the frame page... Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will be along to clarify...

Cheers..

adobe-admin

Legend

It is the ajax code used. I wish there was a way to change it.

Claudio González

Legend

adobe-admin wrote:
It is the ajax code used. I wish there was a way to change it.

Unfortunately, it looks to me that there

are just too many things too many of us would like to see changed.

More unfortunately, it would seem we will have to wait

until th

e next software change to have them corrected.

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