On Fri, 19 May 2000, Kevin Mukhar wrote:
> "Doshi, Gunjan" wrote:
> >
> > > enablebackbutton(false)
> > There is no standard method like that as far as I know.
> > We ran into a similar problem as we had our own navigation menu. The
> > browser's back and next button disturbed our navigation program.
> >
> > What we did was we got rid of the whole toolbar of the browser, so
> > that neither the back or the next button of the browser were
> > visible. It is easy to do that with the openWindow method.
>
> But a smart user can just right-click on the page and get an option
> for 'Back' (in Netscape Navigator, probably IE as well). You need to
> think long and hard before you break the browser's user interface.
I think the trick here is to not attempt to disable the BACK button
iteslf, but the *functionality* of the BACK button *in the context of
your application/servlet*. This means that you'll have to keep track
of where the user is, and not let them repeat an operation. You'll
likely need to make use of the session for some of this.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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