4.0: Handling browser history (back/forward/refresh button)

verlsnake · Post by **verlsnake** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:08 pm

I have the impression that currently AwareIM 4.0 does NOT handle the native browser history at all in the default ExtJS-based UI. Or can one somehow enable the users to navigate the history via the browser native back/forward buttons ? Is there even some more sophisticated undo/redo-mechanism available ? And what about the refresh button ? I ask these questions because they are about an user experience many users will expect in web 2.0 Ajax apps.

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:05 am

Back button should not be used AT ALL. If the button could be disabled we would have done so. Same applies to the Refresh button. They are both a "no-no" in version 4.0 (although a Refresh button can be used to re-start the application is some cases)

Version 4.0 is fully driven by AJAX where Back and Refresh buttons have no meaning.