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> the backspace key as "back" navigation That was a ridiculous usability nightmare and was only popular due to muscle memory from IE doing it long ago (it was
by FreakyT 10y ago
> the backspace key as "back" navigation
That was a ridiculous usability nightmare and was only popular due to muscle memory from IE doing it long ago (it was a terrible decision back then, too).
Good riddance to it, may no one ever again unfocus a form field by accident and wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.
- Mithaldu 10y ago> wipe out an entire form with a single keypress. That's a bug in the browser caching design, not an issue with backspace navication.
- reneherse 10y agoGood riddance indeed! A big thank you from me and my blood pressure to the developers who finally pushed through the removal of that godforsaken nightmare of a human interface feature :)
- btschaegg 10y agoAgreed, and although I get that patches breaking muscle memory are annoying, the potential downsides to that are so disastrous that the arguments around it puzzle me quite a bit to this day. In fact, the whole conversation surrounding this issue made me see for that, although hyperbolic, XKCD 1172 [1] actually isn't that contrived... [1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/