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Re: What's New
I'm talking about the Back button on Netscape. If you put a forced link on
page 1 to page 2, and the user clicks the Back button, you are bounced back
to page 2. The script in page 1 needs to be smart enough to know that
you're coming from page 2, and back you up one more in the history list. A
"back" button on the screen won't help here, since people can still use the
Back button -- or Back command -- to navigate (which is what I tend to do).
I agree that a "what's new page" in general works best with something like
frames, which case a back button there makes sense (though it's not as
needed, I wouldn't think, since you can just have a static frame of "what's
new").
-- Gordon
At 01:11 PM 3/7/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Not sure exactly what you are saying, but if it is a "BACK" button to use in
>frames (or non-frames), try this:
>
>BACK.HTML
>
><html>
><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
>
>function backframe2()
> {
> parent.frames[2].history.go(-2)
> }
>
>document.writeln(backframe2())
></SCRIPT>
></html>
>
>(Note, I use frames[2].history so that my "display frame" backs up one. My
>BACK button sits in another frame, so I have to specify which frame to
>BackUp the href for.)
>----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Then simply link a BACK icon to it with
>
><A HREF="back.html" TARGET="display">
><img border=0 src="/icons/back.gif" align=top></A>
>
>Is this pretty clear?
>
>Stew Pressnall
>cquest@cquest.com
>
>
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