Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath
Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
catgirl-huh Why would a browser give a site the ability to do this in the first place?
Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath
Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
catgirl-huh Why would a browser give a site the ability to do this in the first place?
traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
There’s quite a few reasons why having the ability to change the history of a particular browser session can be helpful. The major one is handling user flow in single page applications where the browser doesn’t see page changes but the application does so you add history despite a new page not being completely rendered. Thus it gives the illusion of moving pages and changing URLs without burdening the browser with the action. It’s a pretty integral feature and there are plenty of sites that make it malicious.
Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
That’s asinine. The outcome of browsers giving incompetent designers enough access to muddy the function of users’ back buttons was predictable from the start.