Hi, Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page?
I use an internal web application (it's a helpdesk issue tracking system...not developed by me) where they developers have hijacked/messed with that back button functionality so I cannot use the back button to get back where I was before I entered the internal web app....rather the internal web app page re-renders itself. The developers of the internal web app are not keen on un-hijacking/un-messing with the back button processing. A compromise...I thought...would be a button in the page saying, for example "Return" (or leave or abandon or exit or something TBA)...that would take the user back to the page they were on *before* the entered the internal web app. To accomplish the compromise the web app will need to know/determine what the prior page to the web app was... Cheers, Simon On Jan 18, 2008 2:24 PM, Simon Cockayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously > showing. > > I think Javascript History object is the ticket...but STRICT mode in > Firefox seems to tell me that I don't have permission to access it. > > NOTE: I don't want to use the History object to go back or forward...I > just want to know what the previous page was...so I can create a button to > go back to it... > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
