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I agree there's a problem here but why not just copy the history of the origin tab to the new tab when it's created?
by brad0 10y ago
I agree there's a problem here but why not just copy the history of the origin tab to the new tab when it's created?
- DennisP 10y agoThat's what I was thinking. Don't need fancy graphics, just make the back button work further back than the tab creation. Doesn't even have to be a copy, if they make the history a tree structure in memory.
- gm-conspiracy 10y agoThis seems like the most simple solution. Are there any disadvantages to this approach?
- tschneidereit 10y agoSee my reply in another conversation thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520978
- tschneidereit 10y agoThat last part doesn't work, unfortunately. We looked into doing exactly that, but the way history navigation works is specified quite strictly - and relied upon by existing web content - making this infeasible.
- DennisP 10y agoI don't see how this could be true. From the perspective of a web page, it'd be exactly the same as if the user's new-tab clicks were regular clicks instead. From a user perspective, my main pain point is the prior history running out at the point where I opened a new tab. In many cases I've already closed the tab it came from, and if it's not closed I have to go looking for it.
- igozalishvili 10y agoTo a degree that is what we are doing here. There are some technical difficulties there and we plan to write followup post on that as well. That being said having a visual representation of the navigation trail is very useful even if it's just to gain ability to jump few steps back rather than going step by step.