Karl Pongratz wrote:
Let's take the subscription page in case that we would have a modal
window. You would still browse to the subscription page, though it
wouldn't have any form field on it, instead there is a link "Click here
to subscribe", clicking on it opens a modal window (smaller than the
main window), which contains the form fields for the subscription. Fill
in the form, submit it, show some "Thank you for your subscription",
that's it, then close the window manually.
You may not want to do that for very simple forms like a subscription
page, but it becomes very handy for complex forms where you use a lot of
DHTML, AJAX, Xforms or whatsoever. As far as I know, AJAX applications
break your web browser history, though if you do the complex AJAX part,
let's say a complex Wizard, inside a modal window then it wont break you
web browser history, and you wont have pages in your web browser history
which shouldn't be there anyway.
If you have AJAX, why not submit form data via XMLHttpRequest rather
than changing the current URL? That way, there is no back button within
the context of navigating the application.
