ron c sunshine coast,qld,a Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 It does it WAY too often to be ignored!!!Help please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael abbott Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 You mean, what's wrong that it *doesn't* do this outside photo.net: backspace is normally the keyboard shortcut for 'back.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wind.dk Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 What do you mean "only on photo.net"? Is it because you only browse on photo.net? It's standard browser behaviour for Internet Explorer on Windows, and for at least some other combinations as well. If you see sites where it doesn't do it, it's probably because they have done something annoying that prevents proper back-functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwenting Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Blocking the back-function can be quite necessary. For example when you are on a dynamic site and the page you came from is calculated on data that's no longer available. Blocking the backbutton in such cases prevents errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron c sunshine coast,qld,a Posted July 12, 2002 Author Share Posted July 12, 2002 Thanks ,i'll just have to block it.Sometimes when it takes me back i lose everything i've written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachary Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 However, it should not be backing up when you are in a text box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wind.dk Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 This is sort of off-topic, but I had to respond to:"Blocking the back-function can be quite necessary. For example when you are on a dynamic site and the page you came from is calculated on data that's no longer available. Blocking the backbutton in such cases prevents errors." Apart from actual *blocking* not being necessary in this case and obviously bad for the users experience (an informative message on the page you back up to is a lot more useful), I have never seen a single instance of this being done (though I've seen some pages with informative messages instead of the usual "This page has expired" sort of stuff). But I have seen hundreds and hundreds of sites that either deliberately or more likely out of stupidity, effectively blocked the back-function with zero-second refreshes and similar junk, preventing people from going back where they came from, and me from ever wanting to visit the site again. Preventing backing up, which is a basic navigational facility on the web, is just as bad as popping up a neverending series of new windows of ads when you enter or leave a page. If the pages are in a new window opened specifically for them for instance for a banking application or similar, it can be useful to obstruct backing, but that's a different situation (and this I have seen a couple of times). In a normal browsing window, backing should *always* be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NK Guy Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 MSIE for Macintosh also has the stupid "delete means go to the previous page" behaviour. At least when you aren't typing in a text box. Netscape doesn't. Perhaps it's a Microsoftism. It's an awful design feature because, as you point out, it greatly increases the risk of losing data by mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greglyon Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 When that happens, why not just hit the 'forward' button in your browser. At least on mine it takes me right back to the place I was typing, text intact. I just did it to test. (I'm using IE 5.5 on Windows ME, but I believe the behavior would be the same on all IE versions since 3.0, and most Netscape versions as well.) OTOH, backspace should have the expected behavior when used inside a text box, ie deleting text to the left of the cursor. As others have stated, this is not limited to Photo.net, it's a specification of web browser standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron c sunshine coast,qld,a Posted July 22, 2002 Author Share Posted July 22, 2002 Hope someone sees this now.we know how an archived question dies a lonely death.It IS happening when i'm writing text!!!!It allways happens when i go back a few sentences with the curser to correct something further back in the text.Any suggestions?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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