site where 'back' button doesn't work..

[Frances Del Rio]

the other day someone asked can u disable 'back' button w/JavaScript..
response was NO.. I asked really? because I've seen a lot of sites
where 'back' button doesn't work and had always assumed this was done
w/JavaScript.. so was asked for an example.. so now found an example..
here's a site where 'back' button doesn't work..
http://www.operissimo.com/index.dxa

I checked code, can't find how they do it..
(not interested in doing this myself, mind you, I think it's a very
user-UNfriendly thing to do.. but am just very curious as to how this is
done..)

main pg on this site is 'index.dxa'... what on earth is this
extension?? have never seen this.. thank you.

Frances

[Michael Winter]

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:35:33 -0400, Frances Del Rio <fd***@yahoo.com>
wrote:

[snip]

here's a site where 'back' button doesn't work..
http://www.operissimo.com/index.dxa
The back button works just fine for me. Which browser, version and OS?

[snip]
main pg on this site is 'index.dxa'... what on earth is this
extension?? have never seen this.. thank you.

I don't know, but it doesn't really matter. You could serve a file with a
..bmp extension as HTML with no real problems[1], though granted, it
wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Mike
[1] Some badly implemented browsers might use the extension to determine
how to treat the content, rather than using the content type sent by the
server. I don't know of any, though.

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[Randy Webb]

Frances Del Rio wrote:

the other day someone asked can u disable 'back' button w/JavaScript..
response was NO.. I asked really? because I've seen a lot of sites
where 'back' button doesn't work and had always assumed this was done
w/JavaScript.. so was asked for an example.. so now found an example..
here's a site where 'back' button doesn't work..
http://www.operissimo.com/index.dxa
I just went to that site and the back button works perfectly fine. What
actions are you getting, and, are you sure you have a history trail to
navigate through?

I checked code, can't find how they do it..
(not interested in doing this myself, mind you, I think it's a very
user-UNfriendly thing to do.. but am just very curious as to how this is
done..)

main pg on this site is 'index.dxa'... what on earth is this
extension?? have never seen this.. thank you.

Probably just another server-side extension that is served with the
proper content-type header to be parsed as HTML

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Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Frances Del Rio wrote:

here's a site where 'back' button doesn't work..
http://www.operissimo.com/index.dxa
Well, it WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
and
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3
Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
I checked code, can't find how they do it..
I can't find out either. I can only guess that the document you are
referring to is opened in a new window/tab; since the history of a new
window/tab is empty, the "back" feature is unavailable.
main pg on this site is 'index.dxa'... what on earth is this
extension??
I don't know (however googling could help), but then it does not even
matter as long as the resource is served as text/html which it is here:

$ HEAD http://www.operissimo.com/index.dxa
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:04:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.11 (Win32) ApacheJServ/1.1
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:07:03 GMT
Client-Peer: 212.55.196.218:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Set-Cookie: JServSessionIdroot=5vrfigq63g; path=/
have never seen this..
I have not either.
thank you.

You're welcome.
PointedEars
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