[WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

Hi, Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? I use an internal web application (it's a helpdesk issue tracking system...not developed by me) where they developers have hijacked/messed with that back button functionality so I cannot use the back button to get back

RE: [WSG] Where did I come from?

>When I read that, I thought about creating a button that finds the site >you were at before you came in here, and then keeps that the same >throughout the site, so no matter how many pages you go to, you can get >back out of all of those and back where you were before you started >that. That

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

I completely agree with most of the comments so far. Why create functionality that is simply replicating the functionality of a browser? There was an article on text resizing a while ago that I'm sure most people are already aware of by Roger Johansson... http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

On 18 Jan 2008, at 17:23, Christian Snodgrass wrote: You shouldn't always assume that they are just trying to replace the back button. As assumptions go, when they say "so I can create a button to go back to it...", it is a pretty safe one. And, not everyone knows about the back button.

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

are there any SSI whizzes out there? I would have thought that you could use the referrer in an SSI to accomplish this sort of functionality. BTW: I am astonished at how few people understand the back button. And many more who don't trust it: a result of abuse, no doubt, from sites that break the

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

When I read that, I thought about creating a button that finds the site you were at before you came in here, and then keeps that the same throughout the site, so no matter how many pages you go to, you can get back out of all of those and back where you were before you started that. That's a bi

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

Christian Snodgrass wrote: You shouldn't always assume that they are just trying to replace the back button. They could want to get the referrer for something else. From the thread starter ".I just want to know what the previous page was...so I can create a button to go back to it.." P --

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

You shouldn't always assume that they are just trying to replace the back button. They could want to get the referrer for something else. And, not everyone knows about the back button. Don't assume... Joseph Ortenzi wrote: But why? everyone knows about the back button, don't they? So you don'

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

But why? everyone knows about the back button, don't they? So you don't really need to help them. And if the previous site was yours and you want to see if they went from your site A to your site B then you could probably do this with sessions or by passing a variable forward through the l

RE: [WSG] Where did I come from?

If the back button doesn't work, then I think you will find that history.go won't work either. Mike From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexey Ten Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:41 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

Simon, on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 15:24 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: > I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously > showing. > I think Javascript History object is the ticket...but STRICT mode in Firefox > seems to tell me that I don't have permission to acces

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

You can use history.go(-1) to go back. Also, there is document.referrer string, but it could be empty. On Jan 18, 2008 5:24 PM, Simon Cockayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously > showing. > > I think Javascript History obje

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

On 18 Jan 2008, at 14:24, Simon Cockayne wrote: I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing. Reliably? You can't. Unreliably? The (optional) HTTP referer header (which is munged by some personal firewall solutions). NOTE: I don't want to use the History

[WSG] Where did I come from?

Hi, I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing. I think Javascript History object is the ticket...but STRICT mode in Firefox seems to tell me that I don't have permission to access it. NOTE: I don't want to use the History object to go back or forward...I just

Re: [WSG] how to set table column widths with CSS

Philippe Wittenbergh skrev: I'm styling the element, not a descendant or child of col (there are none, anyway). (col:first-child applies to the first column, child of colgroup) width applies perfectly to the element. I was surprised to see