Robert Connolly wrote these words on 08/06/07 01:09 CST: > For a while now I have been calling for the executions (one bullet in the > head, another in the heart, and continue until they are dead) of web site > developers who redirect pages to disable the web browsers <back> button (you > click on <back>, and you are redirected back to the page you tried to leave).
Every browser I use has a facility to choose how many pages back (or which one you wish to go back to). You simply bypass the offending page. Robert, get with the times and use a modern browser. :-) > Coincidentally, I'm also calling for similar treatment for people who > distribute tar and zip archives which unpack into the current directory. Yes, this is a PIA, and there's nothing you can really do about it, other than to do a verbose listing of the tarball first, before unpacking it. A PIA. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.26] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 01:21:00 up 4 days, 1:12, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.09, 0.03 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
