Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Mason wrote:
3) The back button is not considered reliable as a navigation aid if
target=_blank is not in use.
Can you elaborate on why this is?
I don't particularly believe that this is true. I made that statement in
accepting for the sake of argument someone else's assertion from earlier
in the thread: [1]
Because the Back button is a horribly awkward interface for navigating,
especially for getting back to pages you visited a few minutes ago. (In
some browsers the Back button has a visible associated menu, but it's
hard to open -- and it relies on page <title>s, which readers probably
didn't notice when first scanning those pages, again because of poor
browser design.)
[1]
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/011104.html
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