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Physically removing F5? Like going around to individual computers and modifying the keyboards?
by jholman 3y ago
Physically removing F5? Like going around to individual computers and modifying the keyboards?
- paulddraper 3y agoYeah I don't understand either
- golergka 3y agoIf I understand correctly, they are talking about an in-house system where toy would be able to do exactly that
- BlargMcLarg 3y agoThis was a webapp to be used internally in an enclosed system, so yes, modifying the keyboards. Company's own hardware.
- undebuggable 3y agoWatching DOM events on the document and disabling key events for the key code 116. One can still trigger document refresh by remapping F5 to other physical key in OS settings, or by clicking refresh button in browser toolbar.
- josephg 3y agoDoes that work? I’m surprised browsers allow websites to disable the default behaviour of F5.
- undebuggable 3y agoYes absolutely. It's possible to remap the entire keyboard at the website level.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoThat seems unnecessarily complex compared to watching for a request to the same webpage, intercepting, and dropping the request. I believe that is all the refresh function is doing. Now ofc I wouldn't give any executives that idea. Don't mess with expected user functionality, that's like UX 101. if I see my navigation tampered with, I flag that site as spam.
- undebuggable 3y agoDepends on one's determination and motives there are many ways to "disable refresh". One motive I imagine and don't approve is some want their website to feel like a mobile app, for whatever reason.
- ukuina 3y agoI don't think you can drop a window refresh event in JS?