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**