[WEB4LIB] RE: Browser Back Button Failure - examples needed

[Lynn Roberts]

With Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x  If you click and hold on the left mouse
button.  You can choose how far you can go back.  This is very useful when
dealing with search engines, Or when looking for something  particular and
you end up in the wrong spot.

Lynn Roberts
Information Technologist
Hart County Library
150 Benson Street, Hartwell, GA  30643
Phone:(706)376-4655 Fax: (706)376-1157
E-mail:robertsa at mail.hart.public.lib.ga.us

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Grace Garbe
> Sent: October 08, 1999 11:10 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Browser Back Button Failure - examples needed
>
>
> In addition to the method mentioned below by David, I tell
> students to use Ctrl+h to bring up the history list in Netscape.
> They can then select the URL to go back to and double click on it.
>
> Grace Garbe
> Systems Librarian/Webmaster
> ZAI AMELEX
> Defense Systems Management College
> Ft. Belvoir, VA
>
>
> >>> David Merchant <merchant at bayou.com> 10/08/99 10:44AM >>>
>
> >You might want to look at this:
> >[from www.tomalak.org]
> >
> >NY Times: Trapped in the Web
> >  Without an Exit. Some side trips
> >  are the result of mistakes by
> >  surfers, but many are the work
> >  of Webmasters who bend and
> >  twist HTML code into trapping
> >  people in one spot like overeager
> >  used-car salesmen. Sites that
> >  specialize in pornography are the
> >  most obvious practitioners of
> >  user manipulation.
>
> The best way out of the trap is when you find yourself in it, turn off
> JavaScript on your browser.  Most of the traps are done with
> JavaScript, so
> turning it off will allow you to close or back out ... most of the
> time...  For redirects, I find that if I double click on the back
> button, I
> often am able to get back past the redirect.  In 4.0 browsers you
> can also
> right click on the back button and choose how far back you want to go,
> thereby skipping past the redirect completely.
>
> TTFN,
> David Merchant
> Systems Librarian, Louisiana Tech University
> javascript list administrator <www.mountaindragon.com/javascript/>
> HTML Live Examples webmaster <www.mountaindragon.com/html/>
> Personal Page <www.mountaindragon.com/merchant/>
>