Re: Inhibiting Browser Back/Fwd Buttons via PHP?

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 10/20/03 

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:21:35 GMT

Tony Marston <tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk> wrote or quoted:

> I am afraid that allowing those buttons to be used annoys users even
> more than not having them at all.

Doubtful. It is like taking away a child's favourite toy ;-)

> a) A user starts a session with form A, then chooses form B.
>
> b) Form B can potentialy retrieve huge amounts od data, so it is
> displayed in separate pages with options to browse forwards and
> backwards through the available pages.
>
> c) Within form B the user browses through several pages, then wants to
> jump immediately back to form A. A button/hyperlink in the current
> form will do this, but the browser 'back' button will have to traverse
> all the prior pages the user visted while in form B before it gets to
> form A.

Your user is using a browser written in 1995? Otherwise, why can't he use
the drop-down menu? 

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