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Redesigning The "Back" Button

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-back-through-the-past dept.

TheMatt writes "Nature Science Update is reporting today about research by New Zealand scientists on redesigning how the "Back" button works in your browser. They point to the fact that the current "Back" is more of an "Up" in a stack of pages. They propose a system that records all pages visited. A good summary page of their efforts in web navigation (including a interesting thumbnail-style "Back" menu) can be found on their page."

2 of 356 comments (clear)

  1. Re:first by YellowSnow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    xbox is huge!!!

    So are the controllers

  2. Back key by deanpole · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use Alt-Left instead of the mouse, and my
    only real problem is Flash which sometimes
    grabs these keys. I know some Flash games
    use the keys, but advertisements need not.
    Shame on them if it is intentional. My prefered
    interface would be to right click and select
    "enable keyboard" on each flash. Mozilla
    could probably implement it without help from
    the plugin.