Randall J. Parr wrote:
> Greg Nee wrote:
>
>> i've run into this problem in both win2k and xp. Is there a bug filed
>> for this? The problem for me is that I can't reliably reproduce it.
>> It just seems to come up randomly.
>
>
> I get it every time I follow the menus of Orcacle TechNet to
>
> http://otn.oracle.com/tech/java/oc4j/content.html
>
> This happens even if I reboot my w2k and go directly to Mozilla 0.9.4
> and to the above site.
>
> Of course, by that time w2k has a fair amount going on in the
> background but I'm not running any other primary applications that
> might be interfering.
>
> R.Parr
> TemporalArts
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>
>
It happens for me on a page with a refresh META tag. Every refresh of
the page generates a new entry in the back button history (the wee
triangle thingy next to the Back button). Methinks that either the back
button IS working, but you have to keep clicking Back to go backwards
through all the auto refreshes, or the prior page is no longer available
in some cache or other and the back operation is cancelled. Maybe the
automated refresh should NOT build up the back history. Even as a web
page developer, and acutely aware of the need to keep [some] prior pages
for debugging purposes, I can not see any useful purpose in keeping
auto-refreshed pages. IMHO, they shouldn't be recorded in the back
button list because the browser will rapdily fill up its back button
history if the page refreshes quickly enough. A case in point is the
Big Brother monitor screen. Those of you familiar with Big Brother will
be aware it refreshes every so often (60 seconds in our setup). I would
propose that for a page with META refresh tags, the auto refreshes
should not be remembered, such that only one click of the Back button
takes the user to the page prior to that which had the refresh tag on
it. I think IIRC that 4.75 worked that way. Maybe this is part of the
problem.
Warmest Regards,
Brian.
