Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Ortenzi
Do you know what they are coding in? PHP?, ASP? The language may offer a specific solution, but the storing in a session might work, but as said, some situations don't pass the HTTP- REFERRER. But ultimately, in a WS-friendly world, is there no way to help convince them to follow this

Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Ortenzi
That's not *fixing* the back button and is a consequence of the AJAX refresh JS instead. It is the JS that needs to be fixed joe On Jan 19 2008, at 17:43, Michael MD wrote: Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? yep .. speaking of which... Is there

RE: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-19 Thread Michael MD
Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? yep .. speaking of which... Is there a good way to fix up back button behaviour (so it behaves as expected) on pages that do stuff like loading data by using javascript in hidden iframes?

Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-19 Thread Ron Zisman
way out of my league On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Michael MD wrote: Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? yep .. speaking of which... Is there a good way to fix up back button behaviour (so it behaves as expected) on pages that do stuff like loading data

Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-19 Thread Ron Zisman
sorry about mylast response, i was having an email blitz with my brother whose name is mike.. --ron On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Michael MD wrote: Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? yep .. speaking of which... Is there a good way to fix up back

ADMIN Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-19 Thread James Ellis
Hi list This is starting to move off topic, if not already there. Being more a question of client or server side scripting rather than web standards, it really doesn't belong on the WSG list (see guidelines) - I'd suggest a general web development source or moving it to the WSG forums for further

[WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Simon Cockayne
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