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Building a Better Back Button

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the beat-a-path-to-your-website dept.

Justin Macfarlane writes "From Stuff: 'Net surfers use the back button more than any other key. A computer scientist has made the command more useful, writes Will Harvie.'"

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  1. The ultimate back button. by nesneros · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I hit back enough do I end up using NCSA Mosaic? Or do I just end up in gopher?

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  2. Dupe, dupe, dupe, dupe of Earl, Earl, Earl by EvilBuu · · Score: 5, Funny

    If within half an hour of posting a story thirty readers have identified the story as a dupe, there must be some way the /. eds could just run submissions through a filter to detect dupes or not. 'Cause they sure ain't catching them on their own.

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    1. Re:Dupe, dupe, dupe, dupe of Earl, Earl, Earl by Ratface · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's almost like they need a special button or something. It could be called the "Back" button perhaps! ;-)

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  3. The Power Of Goat by Big+Mark · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use Phoenix and the mouse gestures plugin; this means I end up using the "open in new tab", "change tab" and "close tab" mouse gestures almost exclusively.

    However, there is also a "go back" gesture, quite possibly the simplest of them all, and do you want to know what site caused me to use this quick escape?

    Goatse!

    Now, that's one back button I don't want to EVER have to press!

    -Mark

  4. wait a minute by loveandpeace · · Score: 5, Funny

    it took them eight years to figure out that people use the Back button even though they don't understand it???

    puh-leez. i want a job on this team.

  5. Re:2002 Dupe? by telstar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe that's how the new back button works. It takes you back to stuff you've seen a year ago.

  6. I disagree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I never use the back button, I only move forward. It's negativity like the back button that is ruining this country.

  7. Back button and PDFs by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 4, Funny


    Nothing makes me hit the back button faster than the realization that I've just clicked on a link to a PDF. Come on! Can't you at least warn us?

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  8. Coming Soon! Better FORWARD Button! by Maul · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have done extensive research and have figured out a way to build a better forward button as well.

    Currently the forward button only works after you've hit the back button. This is highly inconvenient, because the forward button is useless when you fire up your browser.

    However, my new improved forward button will allow web users to actually click ahead into the future so that they don't have to type the URL of the site they are about to visit. It does this with my patented Mind Matrix Technology (TM) that uses a complex mathematical formula to determine what the user wants to see next.

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