Why would a web site disable the ability to use the "back" button in a browser? For example: You use a search engine, you click the link, after reviewing you click the back icon to return to the search engine but it goes back to the same site. My second question is: Who was the buble gum chewing, broken glasses, igno web nerd who convinced major corporation web masters that a customer would want to come back or buy something if you lock them to the site? There is quite a few very large companies that do this. I found Adobe does it on their help/support page. I guess it's par for them because I was searching for a preference setting to shut off that nagging and anoying update feature, and after 30 minutes I found you can't. I know this is geting to be a few questions but, what is "Speculative Downloading in the Background"? Their site (adobe) skips over it's description like a politician doing the side step shuffle.
Dan, this is not my field so I will not be able to answer all your questions, but the one about the not allowing you to back up I might have part of that answered. I book a lot of air travel, hotels and cars on the Internet and some of the sites will not allow you to back up once you get to the secured pages (for instance once the credit card information goes in) possibly to protect against security breaches. I can usually get out of it before a purchase, but need to start over from scratch. I also see this on some sites such as orbitz after some searches, possibly because the database changes since my initial search???
another reason for this might be that you haven't actually LEFT the page you were on, leaving nothing to go back to. with AJAX the entire page could theoretically be loaded in with the previous content being destroyed by DOM. i found this on the adobe website, but i couldn't reproduce the lack of a back button you were describing. Allow Speculative Downloading In The Background: Allows a PDF to continue downloading from the web, even after the first requested page appears. Downloading in the background stops when any other task, such as paging through the document, is initiated in Acrobat.
Thanks for the info. Did a little homework and I have a few more questions. O/S=Win2k pro Browser = IE6.0.28 I like the O/S and the Browser as is. I have no need for what newer versions offer. I think the problem may be that the O/S & the browser version have a DOM compliant issue with JavaScript? Is that possible? If DOM destroyed the prior content why is the back arrow still an active icon in IE? Two fold question, where is the DOM file content directory and is JavaScript the only way to access it's content? By "back", I meant, return to the site the link was on by using the back arrow in the IE toolbar. And, thanks for the ASD definition!
Yes, I've found some do and some don't also. And ..:lol:... I'll bet you found that the same way I did. You got so darn mad that continually clicking that back arrow was a sain move:lol::lol: Thanks
Listed the OS & Browser in the last post. Adobe home site. Linked from the search engine, no "new" window. I have the same "weary" thought about sites that this happens on. This is the first time a notable site has done it. That's when I questioned it as a software problem.
I find that some of the ones that don't allow you to backtrack using a quick double or triple click, will if you click quickly about a half-dozen times :lol: :lol: Yes, exactly.
I cant back out of 4042.com no matter how fast i click. Never have been able to. Using Firefox and that might be why but i can back out 10-15 pages through 4042.com if i go that far in....but cant get past the "welcome" page.
