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The back button in my browser is broken on this site. I know it doesn't matter for the product itself, but it's one of these little annoying things that leave m
by rednum 15y ago
The back button in my browser is broken on this site. I know it doesn't matter for the product itself, but it's one of these little annoying things that leave me with slightly negative - instead of totally neutral - impression.
- thankuz 15y agoFor a company that boasts so much about 'eating their own dog food,' it seems like a lot of things like that get overlooked on most of their new products. I used to call them out all the time on being hypocrites about a lot of the Webmaster / SEO rules they preached and didn't follow on their own domains (ie. canonical URLs, 301 redirects, sloppy URLs, etc.)
- webmonkeyuk 15y ago+1
- jordan0day 15y agoYeah, I was going to respond to the question in the title with "A broken back button, apparently."
- fedd 15y agothe russian letters are broken and show as questions. this is 2011, why encoding errors!
- Qz 15y agoIt still works if you click it twice in a row fast enough. But yes, it's annoying.
- dstein 15y agoYou think they'd use this as an opportunity to use HTML5 pushstate.
- ratsbane 15y agoThat bothered me too. Looking at the traffic, it's doing a 302 redirect (temporary) from www.google.com/offers/ to https://www.google.com/offers/t https://www.google.com/offers/t Perhaps the t page is just the temporary page that lists only a few cities and they're planning on using the main page at /offers once they've got more cities or businesses listed. That still doesn't explain why they didn't just put the temporary page at /offers, though. I tend to give Google benefit of doubt and assume they had a sound technical reason when they do something I don't understand, but I'd like to see an explanation of the thinking behind that.