scott wrote:

> I've definitely got annoyed by some sites where you hit the back button 
> and it takes you to a site you were looking at 10 minutes ago, because 
> all the things you've been doing on this site haven't actually loaded a 
> new page...

Yeah, this is a lot of fun.

The other one is "JavaScript links". You know, where the "link" isn't 
actually a hyperlink, it executes some JavaScript, which then tells the 
browser to change URL. And because it's scripted, you can't Ctrl+click 
to open the URL in a new window. (Or if you do, the existing window 
changes URL anyway, so you *still* don't have the original page. At 
least you can usually use the browser history to go back a page though.)

And then there's the links which pop up a "window" over the current 
page. You know the kind - the whole page goes grey and a funky little 
box appears over the top of it, and you can't do anything with the rest 
of the page until you dismiss the box. (Modal dialogs suck for a reason!)

Lots of shopping sites like to take you to a completely different page 
as soon as you've bought something, which also tends to thwart any 
attempt to used tabbed browsing to nagivate around. You've got a page of 
items, but as soon as you buy one, the page goes away. Great. Now I have 
to somehow navigate back to where I just was...

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