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> I doubt many people use a webapp/SPA and click the browser back instead of the in-app back when they want in-app navigation On phones, the native ‘back’ butt
by aasasd 6y ago
> I doubt many people use a webapp/SPA and click the browser back instead of the in-app back when they want in-app navigation
On phones, the native ‘back’ button is vastly more easy to tap than searching for where the designer placed their button this time and then likely reaching for the farthest corner of the screen, opposite of where my thumbs are. So much so that I get surprised and annoyed when a page that has fullscreen-y dialogs doesn't close them on ‘back’ but returns me to another page instead.
On desktop, personally for me at least one of the hands is usually on the keyboard in the proximity of ‘backspace’, which is again a no-brainer to mash. So the same consideration applies.
- swiley 6y agoI thought most phones got rid of the back button, or do you mean the one in the mobile browser chrome?
- aasasd 6y agoStill there on Pixel 4, afaics. I'm certainly using it with Android 10 on my phone.
- OJFord 6y agoThe physical one sure, but Android has a system UI bar at the bottom (iff there aren't physical equivalents, which as you say there mostly aren't now) with back, home, and app switching buttons. I've been trying iOS for the last couple of months, and especially initially that back button was one of my most missed features; it still annoys me, I've just stopped expecting it.