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To be fair, this only happens due to programming bugs on the website. You can easily store the scroll position in the HTML5 pushstate API. The big websites like
by littlecranky67 7y ago
To be fair, this only happens due to programming bugs on the website. You can easily store the scroll position in the HTML5 pushstate API. The big websites like Twitter and Facebook get this right.
- mar77i 7y agoFamously, imgur gets it wrong. After 10 images you can click "load more images" to see the rest of the album, but when you return to the album you have to click it again.
- vimslayer 7y agoImgur does lots of things wrong, it's really really horrible to use, especially on mobile. Although to be "fair", that's probably largely intentional crippling of the site to push users towards their app.
- mikeash 7y agoI just tried Twitter on my iPhone and it fails as described if I manually put in a new URL and then go back from there. Google gets it wrong in their search results. When it’s that common to have this bug I’d say it’s fair to just consider it to be part of the technique.
- compiler-guy 7y agoFacebook does not get this right. I end up in a random place with content I haven’t seen is the back button all the time. It’s one of the things I hate most about the UI.