Buttons in AJAX

It just amazes me how people think that this breaking of the Back Button in an application that uses Ajax is somehow new.  Well, this is not a new problem.  Web based applications have had this problem for a long time.  Yes, it sucks.  Try to explain to users how the Back or Refresh Buttons really work and they get upset.  I believe that there are two issues in solving the problem:

  • Learn how to code around them.  Yeah, you have to write more code.  If you don't like it, I hear that there is a job opening in the flower shop down the street.
  • Get the browser makers to produce an easy way to disable buttons individually.  Hopefully, this would work cross browser.

Now, the Stop button issue that Plip mentions is a different issue.  I had not heard this and would like to hear more on the subject of when the Stop button works and does not work.  I thought that there was a way in the old ASP 3.0 days to check to see if a user had clicked on the Stop button from server side code.  Can code still check for the Stop button being click on the server side?  **Geez, it has been so long since ASP3 for me I can't remember anything from it**

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