My site displays search results from a mix of onsite and offsite links. It currently opens all links in a new window (target="_blank"). I feel that this method is pretty crude as it creates a really disjoint user experience. (In IE7 a new window will open in weird sizes, in FF it will open in a new tab).
If I open the content in an iframe, it breaks the back button. Grafting on one of the current back button fixes like Jquery BBQ and history seems like a pretty large task given my site is already been in development for several years.) I'm torn on the back button issue. I have had several people look at the site and tell me that users expect certain behavior from the back button and going offsite to view search results and hitting the back button to return is preferable to open in a new window. Any suggestions? On Dec 17, 5:16 am, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 17, 10:01 am, ProbablyMike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Obviously using Static Maps would speed up your page loading a lot. > > It would, but the purpose of going back to the search page would be to > do something else, so the API still has to be loaded sometime. > > > But as Mike Williams said, I think you really need to think about how > > your page works really, going back & forth between pages all the time > > is not good design at all. > > It would help to see what you're doing. If your results pages are > coming from your *own* site, then AJAX (preferably) or iframes is > definitely the way to go, since you have control over the output. If > your search results go off to someone else's site, then perhaps > displaying the result in a new window will do: your map doesn't get > unloaded at all. > > Note too that when you use the Back button, your page may get reloaded > from scratch, and if the map has been moved that won't be reflected in > the revisited page. > > Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
