RE: FN-FORUM: Back buttons

date posted 26th September 2007 14:02

Tony wrote:
> users are giving you a use case where they want to go back.
> if that can't be done using the browser back button, then you need
> to address the site navigation, not provide a javascript back
> button that duplicates the browser back button.

+1. I'd advocate:

- Breadcrumb links whenever several levels of navigation depth are used
- 'Back' buttons where the browser back button is broken (e.g., due to
client-side redirects; note that JavaScript back links would also be broken
in this case).
- 'Back to X' type links where the logical return location is not
necessarily the same as the last page visited.

The links do not necessarily need to be hard-coded, particularly if some
sort of CMS or similar is in use - frequently the breadcrumb / 'back' links
can be automatically generated.

Cheers, Ben

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