The Back-Button Problem in Pre-AJAX Applications
I haven’t checked my Blog roll today, but I have yet to find an AJAX article mentioning the “back button” problem in traditional, thin-client, pre-AJAX, Web applications. When a form is submitted in these applications the browser usually moves one page forward in “history”—so when you click on the back button you usually see what you previously submitted. Surely, proper AJAX-based designs eliminate this problem. And this problem seems bigger to me than the AJAX-spawned, back-button design flaw.