[thelist] Safari trouble

Ishrath Fatima ishrathf at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 13:35:19 CDT 2006


Thank you,

Fatima

On 10/27/06, Lee kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26/10/06, Ishrath Fatima <ishrathf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is how the code looks
> >
> >    echo"<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='#'
> > onClick='history.back(0)'>Go
> > back to the form</a>";
> >
> > Fatima
>
> So you're saying in Safari, using back navigation doesn't persist the
> form-field entries?  You have no control over that doing it this way,
> in any browser, I'm sure other browsers can exhibit this behaviour
> depending on cache settings.
>
> The method where you have control is to not use JavaScript back(),
> take the user to the form using standard navigation with the
> previously-entered values explicitly defined in the form.
>
> While you're at it.  Put your error message on the form itself so you
> don't have to hold onto any state.
>
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