The go button also becomes a stop button during page load. Many many Windows users like using their mouse to press the go button, just like people like using the 'search' button on google.com. There's an argument that if we removed it, people would learn to press 'enter' and be happier as a result (IM software went through this transition).
However, reload is used so frequently and has such well-defined behavior that we didn't want to mix it with anything else (by say, making a 'stop/reload' button, or making it not work as-expected after the user entered a URL that they didn't submit). Many mobile browsers have a combined go/reload button. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, idanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I just discovered we have a Go button ;) > > Well, I knew it was there, just didn't know what it was used for, so > here goes: > > We have both a Reload button (Circular Arrow) and a Go button > (Triangle). Hopefully this > won't trigger a war of Reload vs Go, but isn't one of them redundant? > They do the same > thing most of the time, both of them reload the page. > > The difference in behavior is that if someone types a URL in the > location bar without > pressing Enter or clicking Go, then reload loads the currently > displayed page. Are > there any other differences? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
