One of the most heinous modern “new media” practices is the repurposing of my browser’s back button. God help LW if they’ve done that, but it looks like maybe they have. All I know is somehow the site shunted me into a one-way dead end street so I had to get out and start all over again.
I was just blowing off steam about a practice I hate which is more and more common in (mostly commercial) web sites: when they’ve got you where they want you, they disallow going back. I don’t know how it really happened; it might have been all my fault.
On commercial sites, when I end up on a page from which the back key won’t work, and my only option is to make some sort of commitment (Click “Yes! I’m just dying to know about …”), and if I try to kill the window, and get a pop-up that says “Wait! You don’t really want to navigate away from this page, do you?”
I’d call it design, though I wouldn’t call it conspiracy.
Holding down the back button should show you the full history, just select one of the pages farther back. I am not aware of any sites blocking that feature. You will still get the popup, though.
Thank you! that’s extremely helpful. The list of previous pages used to be part of a “Go to” button which disappeared, and I thought the functionality was lost forever.
One of the most heinous modern “new media” practices is the repurposing of my browser’s back button. God help LW if they’ve done that, but it looks like maybe they have. All I know is somehow the site shunted me into a one-way dead end street so I had to get out and start all over again.
Tell me it isn’t so.
I don’t think we have any features like this. If you describe exactly what happened to this guy, he may be able to figure out what’s wrong.
I was just blowing off steam about a practice I hate which is more and more common in (mostly commercial) web sites: when they’ve got you where they want you, they disallow going back. I don’t know how it really happened; it might have been all my fault.
it’s probably cock up rather than conspiracy.
On commercial sites, when I end up on a page from which the back key won’t work, and my only option is to make some sort of commitment (Click “Yes! I’m just dying to know about …”), and if I try to kill the window, and get a pop-up that says “Wait! You don’t really want to navigate away from this page, do you?”
I’d call it design, though I wouldn’t call it conspiracy.
Holding down the back button should show you the full history, just select one of the pages farther back. I am not aware of any sites blocking that feature. You will still get the popup, though.
Thank you! that’s extremely helpful. The list of previous pages used to be part of a “Go to” button which disappeared, and I thought the functionality was lost forever.