HUnewearl_Meira
Jun 9, 2004, 01:00 PM
I just have to get this off my chest.
WHY the heck does my web browser have to recall the page from the server when I hit the damn BACK button??
This makes no sense to me.
I understand that this was probably included as a means to prevent people from just using the Back button to see what someone just did while doing Online Banking or something, BUT...
For cheese's sake, I don't bank online, I don't deal with PayPal very much, and the computers I use generally don't get used by anyone else, except on the occasion that my wife sits down at my home computer to watch TV, or check something on the net. Oh no! My wife might discover my PayPal password! Gasp. As if it weren't enough that she knows my PIN number.
I mean dammit, when I hit the "BACK" button, I'm not looking for a new page view. If that were my intent, I'd find the link again. When I hit "BACK", it means that I intend to go look at what I was looking at a moment ago. So why the hell are we clogging up server bandwidth to download something that's already in my cache? I view an image while navigating my Angelfire account, hit the back button, and Surprise! I have to refresh because there's some sort of CGI information involved! I can't just look at what I was fscking looking at 20 seconds ago! OMFG!
Argh-ness.
WHY the heck does my web browser have to recall the page from the server when I hit the damn BACK button??
This makes no sense to me.
I understand that this was probably included as a means to prevent people from just using the Back button to see what someone just did while doing Online Banking or something, BUT...
For cheese's sake, I don't bank online, I don't deal with PayPal very much, and the computers I use generally don't get used by anyone else, except on the occasion that my wife sits down at my home computer to watch TV, or check something on the net. Oh no! My wife might discover my PayPal password! Gasp. As if it weren't enough that she knows my PIN number.
I mean dammit, when I hit the "BACK" button, I'm not looking for a new page view. If that were my intent, I'd find the link again. When I hit "BACK", it means that I intend to go look at what I was looking at a moment ago. So why the hell are we clogging up server bandwidth to download something that's already in my cache? I view an image while navigating my Angelfire account, hit the back button, and Surprise! I have to refresh because there's some sort of CGI information involved! I can't just look at what I was fscking looking at 20 seconds ago! OMFG!
Argh-ness.