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(Judson Valeski) wrote:
> I don't see why we'd want to special case scroll and form data entries
> only (outside of maybe providing the ability to disable that kind of
> history completely (note: I can't see any practical need for this right
> now (unless of course saving those things is soooo expensive, *and* we
> can't fix the size problem easily), everyone basically needs/wants that
> kind of capability).
You'd want to turn this off for shared machines running in a public
place (e.g. a library). Would you want someone to go back a few
pages, and find your credit card number?
> Clearing history, from a users perspective, is
> always _time_ based, not "have I filled out a form" based.
"Time" in "I did that more than 30 mins ago, I expect my machine
to forget it"? Or some other measure of time? I think a 'number
of URLs ago' is a better condition. If you're interrupted in the
middle of placing an Amazon order, and come back 2 hours later,
then find you want to back up and fix a typo on the past page,
you don't want wallclock-time based history clearing.
Simon
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