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Thread: how to disable back button in firefox
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pnmorrison
Newbie Joined: Mar 3, 2008 Post Count: 49 Status: Offline |
to restrict a user from going to previous page in IE i use the following code on that page (the previous page) <script> window.history.forward(1); </script> However Firefox ignores this script. Does anybody know how i cna disable the back button in firefox. Thanking you in advance. Paul |
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Susie
Advanced Member Ohio, USA Joined: May 30, 2004 Post Count: 2677 Status: Offline |
Why would you want to do that? I would not be happy about it as a visitor to your site. |
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newseed
Advanced Member Joined: Apr 2, 2005 Post Count: 2141 Status: Offline |
If you mess with my browser....POOF!..I am outta here and you won't see me come back....ever. Now...just WHY in the world would you want to do something like that?? ---------------------------------------- Success is based on how much you spend. If it's not money, then the alternative is your time. The Kasper Group |
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pnmorrison
Newbie Joined: Mar 3, 2008 Post Count: 49 Status: Offline |
Listen - if i had a choice do u think i would implement it. Would i heck! But as it goes - i dont! Thanks for your meant well but unhelpful comments! |
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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
Others sometimes tend to forget that your often making a site for "someone else" and that your actions may be dictated by their whims and not your own. And when push comes to shove, I'd imagine that their wants hold more value than yours, since their the ones paying the tab. That said, I don't like it when I can't go back either, but I won't assume to know all situations this may be helpful or not. Here is one way. And here is the demo. Or Google offers many links to it also. ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by ewwatson at Dec 12, 2008 9:00:55 AM] |
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newseed
Advanced Member Joined: Apr 2, 2005 Post Count: 2141 Status: Offline |
Listen - if i had a choice do u think i would implement it. Would i heck! But as it goes - i dont! Thanks for your meant well but unhelpful comments! I think you have been here enough to know that we offer strong opinions about things that users/developers should stir away from. This is no difference. Whether you are doing for you or for a client, it should be stressed to the person using it that it's like taking the steering wheel out of the hands of the person driving it. ---------------------------------------- Success is based on how much you spend. If it's not money, then the alternative is your time. The Kasper Group |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6287 Status: Offline |
Part of the issue in this is that they are paying us as the professionals. We don't tell them there job and they need to listen to us, if they don't why are they paying us. This is our specialty, that is why they have us. The Back button is a basis of web navigation from early on. It is inbed in us and is the default escape that always works... especially for those with disabilities, it is a major handicap for people with disabilities if it is taken away. Clearly from the post you know this is part, so the question is still why? Why do they want it this way? What have you argued? Maybe we can come up with arguments you can use to change their minds. This is wrong and we have to fight it tooth and nail. Finally they may still get their way, but the question is have we as designers done all we can do to change their minds. Face it, anyone can turn of the JS on their browser and your attempts to stop the back button goes poof! Explain that to them that it is not hard to get around so why bother. I guess what we would like them is to know why they feel the need to mess with the user... maybe we can come up with alternatives to killing the back button. Give us more info and we will help you argue against it again, we can help find reasons it won't work. They may be footing the bill, but we as developers build the web site for the end user and their needs. ---------------------------------------- Gu.aal kwsh� yak'�i it�akw ijeet wugood�k LSW-WebDesign.com |
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