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In my site, the back button takes you to the app you were at BEFORE you went to meta64. If you want to call that a problem fine. Most SPAs abhor the back button
by ClayFerguson 10y ago
In my site, the back button takes you to the app you were at BEFORE you went to meta64. If you want to call that a problem fine. Most SPAs abhor the back button, don't want it, don't need it, etc. There is a reason native apps don't use the 'back' feature, but simply have 'cancel' buttons to get out of things etc. The fact that the back button is such a thorn in the side of non-spa apps is a good hint that non-spa apps are not ideal, unless browsing static documents.
BTW even hacker news has a 'back functionality' that sucks. You have to go back then refresh. Meta64 is already vastly superior to other online social media experiences including wikipedia and including better than this HN site.
- ec109685 10y agoMost Native apps do have a back button. On android it is built into the phone. Also, serious question: if I navigate your rss outline, how do I go back and chose a different section to browse? Right now you are stuck in the section you chose and the back button closes the app.
- ClayFerguson 10y agoMy GUI design is definitely not yet perfected. I experiment with lots of different things. The website is not ready for users, but mostly DOES work. The RSS is pretty much usable however. One of my own main news sources. The triangle icon at the top is what takes you to the Parent node. BTW, i'm 49yrs old so my definition of "native" still means "desktop". lol. Apps like MSFT Word (and all others) don't have back buttons, becasue the back button was invented for web browsers showing static documents, back in 1993. It just still exists, but today but is valueless (and even problematic) for SPAs.
- duval 10y agoThis guy has gotten it so wrong I'm verging on mistaking it for a troll.
- ClayFerguson 10y agoNewsflash for ya: The whole world is moving to SPAs.
- flukus 10y agoYour world maybe. I'm not using any of those resources hemorrhaging nightmares..
- ClayFerguson 10y agoSwitching to an SPA will cause resource problems, if you have leaky memory use (i.e. maps or arrays that continually grow). An app that refreshes pages a lot (non-SPA) will have those bugs masked, because essentially every page refresh is a clean slate (release of memory). Don't blame the SPA-pattern itself for that problem.
- duval 10y agoI spend all day writing SPA code and would be fired if my boss saw me do anything like that