WebSphere Portal Server - browser navigation buttons

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browser navigation buttons

hoehncm

2004-01-19, 2:59 pm

Using WPS 4.2.1.

I wonder if anybody out there has good ideas on how to adress some usability concerns I have around the flakiness that browsers exhibit then users attempt to use the "Back" and "Forward" navigation buttons. My experience has been that users expect to rev
ert to the previous page/portlet states when going back in the browser's history.

Thanks for your thoughts.

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Chris

L D Jones

2004-01-19, 2:59 pm

hoehncm wrote:

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> Using WPS 4.2.1.
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> I wonder if anybody out there has good ideas on how to adress some usability concerns I have around the flakiness that browsers exhibit then users attempt to use the "Back" and "Forward" navigation buttons. My experience has been that users expect to r

evert to the previous page/portlet states when going back in the browser's history.

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It seems there isn't a general solution to the problem of a "stateful"
application on a stateless protocol. The following is not a solution but
an overview of the problem:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docvie...tf-8&lang=en+en

I think the situation has improved in Portal 5 but the back button
problem hasn't been "solved" as far as I know.