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 particular standard?
I addition, have you researched that people WANT to go back to the
site that led them to your web app? sometimes people move on to the
next site for a reason and really are done with the first one...
Joe
On Jan 19 2008, at 07:18, Simon Cockayne wrote:
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 where I was before I entered the internal web
app....rather the internal web app page re-renders itself.
The developers of the internal web app are not keen on un-hijacking/
un-messing with the back button processing.
A compromise...I thought...would be a button in the page saying,
for example "Return" (or leave or abandon or exit or something
TBA)...that would take the user back to the page they were on
*before* the entered the internal web app.
To accomplish the compromise the web app will need to know/
determine what the prior page to the web app was...
Cheers,
Simon
On Jan 18, 2008 2:24 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 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 want to know what the previous page was...so I can
create a button to go back to it...
Cheers,
Simon
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