[thelist] navigation through form posting

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Sun Mar 24 15:17:00 CST 2002


david,

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> From: David Kutcher
>
> >  - using the back button gives an expired form
> >    post message.
>
> Not if using GET...
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of course, my comment was assuming the post method which it seemed tony was talking about in his original post.

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> and it depends, because you could create a javascript to
> modify the behavior of the back button and to call
> values from hidden form elements that would supply the
> values necessary.
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now you're *really* talking about nightmares.  i *guarantee* you won't get that to work reliably.  and, when it fails, it'll fail worse than you expect.  you see, when the post method is used, the browser decides how it's going to handle the back button.  if the previous page was from a post, the browser will just throw up an error page saying the page was the result of a post and to either click the back button again or reload the page.

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> >  - reloading gives a "repost form data" message.
>
> Again, only if POST, not GET
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agreed.

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> >  - link destinations are obscured in a manner even
> >    worse than obscuring it with descriptive text
>
> Not necessarily true, but a good point.  You can put alt
> text on a form submit button.
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i was talking about link destinations displayed in the status bar.  no amount of alt texting things will make that go away.  further, the methods i've seen don't rely on form submit buttons.  they use links that call javascript functions which result in a form being submitted.

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> >  - non-js browsers and browsers with js disabled
>
> A non-js browser?  sigh.  I really wish we could get
> past browsers that don't support commonly used (98%+
> of the market) technologies that have been around
> since 1996 (6 years+)
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and?  i think you're missing the point, big time.  see my other post about this.

.jeff

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