On Wed, 26 May 1999 10:52:28 -0400, Peake, Gary wrote:
> With secure server forms, most times it is regarded as not good policy to
> allow a back button to take you to a filled in form, even if you are the one
> who filled it in.
As long as the "buffering" of the entered data is ONLY on the user's
computer and not on the server, there shouldn't be a problem. Of
course, Voyager, at this time, doesn't cache the data in the form;
hence, the "problem." This caveat annoys me, too; particularly with
long forms.
>
> On Buy.com and others, there is even a warning that doing so may cause you
> to get billed twice for the same product. Just a word of warning.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Andreas Mas Marques
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 02:46 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re[2]: [voyager] forms
> >
> >
> > >> Is there some way of getting a form to save the inputed data in
> > this
> > >> example:
> > >>
> > >> I input lots of data in lots of fields.
> > >> I press "Go do it".
> > >> I get a error page, "Sorry, you forgot one field. press back and
> > try again".
> > >> I press back and I have to fill in all data again.
> > >
> > > This has more to do with the form on the server than with V. At
> > least
> > > that's what I remember.
> > > This thread came up before IIRC and that was what was accepted as
> > the
> > > expert opinion at the time.
> > >
> >
> > However, even if it is a form-related problem, to nevertheless
> > display all the filled in data when coming back to the form is not an
> > impossable task to do (e.g. Netscape Navigator). I really would
> > appreciate to see that in Voyager 3.
> >
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Patrick Bartek (NoLife Polymath Group)
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