My FF and IE behave as does Chrome. I've heavily configure my FF and may have messed it up, but my IE is quite vanilla.
-Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Eli Barzilay [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: 'dev'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] [racket] Exploratory programming? > > Four hours ago, [email protected] wrote: > > > > 2. Search Manuals breaks the browser's Back button. Here's a simple > > example. > > a. Open http://docs.racket-lang.org/ > > b. Type "modulus" in the "search manuals" box and hit Enter > > c. No matches found, so change the highlighted text to "modulo" > > d. Click on one of the results > > e. Click the browser's back button > > f. I'm not "back" at the list of results > > > > I have been very impressed with the level of documentation, but I > > (and my students) have often found frustration in searching. > > That's an issue with URLs and with how your browser decides to > implement history navigation. When you're done with (b), you get to > the search page with the query in the url "...?q=modulus". You now > change the string and follow a link, then go back -- to the same url > with the original query. At this point, Chrome reinitializes the page > in a way that makes "modulus" re-appear in the input field, while > FireFox preserves the state as you left it and will not do that. I > know how to make FF behave like Chrome, but that involves > re-initializing the page, which means that using the back button will > be much more painful. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
