POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : How *annoying* is this? : Re: How *annoying* is this? Server Time
10 Oct 2024 23:18:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How *annoying* is this?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 18 Mar 2008 09:22:58
Message: <47dfd042$1@news.povray.org>
Warp escribió:
> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> Web pages that refuse the 'back' button.
> 
>   I have noticed Firefox fixed this problem some time ago. In it, instead
> of the back button going strictly to the previous page, it goes to the
> previous user-specified page. In other words, if a page immediately
> redirects to another page using javascript or meta refresh or whatever,
> Firefox's back button will skip that intermediate page when going back.
> 
>   Quite handy. (I don't understand why *all* browsers don't do this.
> It just doesn't make sense to go back to a page which effectively
> immediately goes forward again.)
> 

All browsers do it if it is a proper HTTP redirect instead of that meta 
crap.


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