Gmail seems to fix the "back" issue by going out of their way to break the "open in new window" experience. Ctrl+clicking messages to open them in new tabs tak

Gmail seems to fix the "back" issue by going out of their way to break the "open in new window" experience. Ctrl+clicking messages to open them in new tabs takes up so much of your life waiting for them to load that you quickly become trained not to try doing that. The thing is, the more pieces of the browser that you try to replace with javascript, the more opportunities you have to get them subtly wrong. Just watch the discussion here whenever somebody submits an article using that wordpress plugin that tries to replicate an iPad's scrolling functionality inside of your iPad. It's just barely different, but that's why it's so annoying. If it were completely different, it actually wouldn't be a problem at all. But it's not. It just feels like it's not working right.