alt Hacker NewsEasy fix:
JS doesn't let you change back button behaviour.
Q. But what about SPA?
A. Draw your own app-level back button top left of page.
Another solution: make it a permisson.
Replies
kaelwd • today at 5:47 AM
Can I preventDefault on mouse5? What about the physical back button on Android?
Hamuko • today at 5:42 AM
>Draw your own app-level back button top left of page.
This is the worst idea I’ve heard all day.
sublinear • today at 6:24 AM
Why not just put up a fake captcha page? When the user clicks the link to continue, the back button is now hijacked.
Yeah, no thanks. I want to use my browser’s standard keyboard shortcut to navigate back. And also forward again. And I want to be able to inspect the history listing before I go back or forward.
Let the browser do the browsery things. Don’t make SPAs suck even more than they already do.