Got Web Ideas? Fishing for the Answers?
Think Outside The Code First!
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Facts, Thoughts, and Opinions About Web Development and Business Strategy
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Target Topic: Back button issues with AJAX, a fix for .NET people, and
some thoughts.
Factual and opinionated.
Some say that AJAX breaks the back button. Technically, it does not break it.
It just stops it from returning to the proper index when going back to a paged
result of record sets or other multi-step AJAX feature. Depending on the
nature of your Website, this may or may not be a high concern for you.
Microsoft has a fix for the back button, which is in beta, that will allow a developer
to write a record to the user's browser history. It is called
.NET Futures Release.
You can use it now but it may change before it's official release.
I have played with it a little. I almost have it working but not quite.
Right now I am not too interested in the coding overhead the current model
requires. It could be much simpler and I think it will be.
I do not know what is available for this issue in non-Microsoft circles.
Those looking to implement AJAX should be aware of this issue and also be aware
that .NET has a solution for it.
Personally, I am not too concerned about this issue for my own sites.
Although, I will be installing the .NET back button feature once I have
it working. Given a content driven Website, you almost have to have it.
If someone views my
home page, scrolls
through the list of news items without clicking on anything, and then hits
their back button it will take them back to the previous Website they were
on. I do not believe this happens very often and my stats show most
people click on a handful of pages when they are there. But I am sure
it happens every now and again.
This is kind of where you have to pick your poison. Are the few occurances
of that happening more important than using AJAX on my home page to monetize
Google AdSense? Right now I think AJAX is helping with the campaign. You
have to give something to get something.
BUT, I question the longevity of the back button in browsers simply because
I believe Websites and browsers are going to go through many changes in the
next couple of years.
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