David Lapides wrote:
>
> A properly designed site should minimize the need to use the back button.
> I've gotten in the habit of spawning a new browser window (with ctrl-n)
> before hitting a link that I might want to return from. It's a lot easier to
> close an extra browser window and wind up right where you were before than
> to work the back button.
>
> But I consider it incredibly rude and offensive when a website spawns a new
> browser window for me.
>
> </two cents>
Well, since I started this, I guess I agree, but not so strongly :-)
I prefer a new window being launched to hijacking my browser history so
the back button just loops 'round to the new page again and again.
Though the new-window-before-click approach is a good one, somewhat
reminiscent of saving the game just before encountering the troll in the
basement....
Comments on the IMail web server are well-taken, but to replicate a web
server isn't an easy task, 'specially one having to keep track of
messages as they come in, etc, and to coexist with pop3 and imap access
to the same account, perhaps simultaneously. Easier to make a server for
web email access alone, like hotmail...
--
"The troll hits you delicately on the side of the head with his axe.
You have died."
Cal Frye, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio
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