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(1) What did you think of the article?

(2) What other usability problems frustrate you?

(3) Where can people get JavaScript code related to the browser back button?

Cheers,

- John

John S. Rhodes
WebWord.com -- Industrial Strength Usability
http://webword.com
john@webword.com

You might want to take a look at Bookmarklets. They are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer web browsers.

http://www.bookmarklets.com/

Cheers,

- John

John S. Rhodes
WebWord.com -- Industrial Strength Usability
http://webword.com
john@webword.com

Just a note: using ALT+Back arrow also takes you back a page. Faster than the mouse, if you have your hands on the keyboard. I also use an nifty app called "ClickyMouse" to associate the left side of the screen with a Browser Back Operation, thus making going back extreemely fast.

2cents.

Joćo Martins
Editor Usabilidade.com

This page has good information and I'd love to pass this web page's URL along to others, but it is nearly unreadable in places, and its poor spelling and grammar would be a bad influence on readers. The main problem is ambiguity. In many sentences, it is not clear what the noun-subject or the noun-object is.

"back button drop down" must be written as "Back button drop-down menu." "Drop down" is not a noun and cannot be used as such. As an adjective phrase, it has to be hypehnated to make sense. If not, the English syntax is broken. "Back" is clearly capitalized on the Back button of every browser. How is it possible not to notice this, or not to know that proper names must be capitalized? By not capitalizing the name of the Back button, ambiguity is introduced because "back" can be a noun, verb, or adjective.

"back button drop down" has been replaced with "Back button drop-down menu" in all places in the article. I appreciate the feedback.

Cheers,

John S. Rhodes
WebWord.com -- Industrial Strength Usability
http://webword.com
john@webword.com

I've found a rapid repeat click of the back button usually works perhaps preventing the cached page from fully reloading

i would like to disable the back button of the browser when i click a button.
am not interested in any SSI ...etc

i want to do everything on the client end itself

Although I agree that disabling the back button is a pain for the user, but it becomes very essential for those information web sites (which don't always have the big resources - wide bandwidths, array of web servers with multiple backend servers, excellent telecomm. links for geographically distributed databases etc.), wherein the "impatient user" is not willing to wait even for slightly longer waiting period after he has submitted the query and almost always goes back to the previous page and refires the query, thus loading/choking the web site.

I would like some purely client side Javascript code which disables the user from going back and again refiring the query, while the query is in progress but it allows him to go back after the query has completed.

And, for those running Mozilla, the right-click option also offers "Open in new tab," which opens the selected link in another tab of the browser (vice new window). When done with link, simply close tab. No hijacking of back button.

Hi, how can we change the behavior of browser back button, to take 3 pages back when hit, or how to disable back button? i appreciate for any solution to this

This is the stupidest article I've ever read, you are an idiot.

I need to diable back button when submit is done so the people couldnt go back to see the previous page information.

Please send me information to agranaro@hotmail.com i really need help....

THANKS

I need to know how the back button can be disabled.

I need to know how the back button can be disabled.
Please mail me at sajeewani@sasianet.com. Help is greatly needed.
Thanks