Why is it that some web pages don't allow you to click BACK and return to the page you were previously on, you click back at it just reloads the same page, it pisses me off. I though it was a ploy to try to get you to stay or get more clicks for the site but i've noticed that even reputable pages like wikipedia do it. Any insider knowledge out there?
2006-09-26 23:53:37 · 11 answers · asked by ferdinand 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
By return to the previous page i mean leave the site and return to a previous different site, not the previous page on the same site.
2006-09-27 00:02:12 · update #1
Hi Ferdinand,
I haven't done any web page creation in a few years, and things may have changed as new programs have substituted earlier HTML, but it used to be that any web page was programmed to accept certain links, but not all. And for the page, once accessed, to return to the previous page, a reciprocal link would have to be placed in the code.
Nowadays, many sites are spidered into the world wide web using software specifically designed to link to all the major search engines. Some sites out there do not reciprocate, meaning that you cannot just click "back" and return to where you were previously.
Perhaps the non-reciprocal sites are:: either, older sites, written in earlier versions of HTML, and/or they were manually spidered into the search engines, where reciprocal links were not created.
If you want to test my theory ... try accessing the site that does not allow a "back" click from more than one site, say Google, and YYahoo search engines, and a third non-search engine site. If you cannot return to the previous page from any of the three examples, then the site has omitted reciprocal links.
Although it is aggravating, I don't think there's any great conspiracy here. Just insufficient programming.
2006-09-27 00:13:13 · answer #1 · answered by gemlover 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of times, the site will drop you(r) (cursor) into a search or drop-down box by default, so when you hit the BS key, all you're doing is clearing the box. This happens to me all the time when I'm searching product reviews on cNet....Also, some pages act like they're the FIRST page you've opened in your browser, so there's no place to click back to...although I can't think of an example at the moment....
Try clicking somewhere else on the page that DOESN'T activate a link, and you should be good to go, even though it's a PITA.
2006-09-27 00:03:15 · answer #2 · answered by rixtoy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some very mean webasters do that intentionally. I never return to those pages.
Some times it is a browser or code that is not interperted correctly from the HTML/XHMTL or whatever code is used.
I simply click on a Favrorites to escape the trappers or buggy pages.
But sometimes it is for your good. Some reputable sites will not allow you to exit from a form submission until the data has been served. This technology is gaining alot of favour with the new SEC site and its use of Xflow data.
2006-09-27 00:14:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can click back and leave using the UNDO level...
click on the Sub Menu at the undo button and select the page you want to go back to.
And why is that so with some pages. I think it's just the comercial stuff, they don't want you to leave:)
2006-09-26 23:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by klima_edo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The browser back button is fine if you are viewing static pages.In case of dynamic web applications and sites (say a shopping cart etc.) all hell will break loose if we allow default back button functionality.
Say you are on a banking site and press back button twice. voila,you are out of the site in middle of an imp. transaction. For th e above reasons,many application try to manage their own "workflow" and trap the browser back button. This alters the browser back button behavior.
Applications do that so the "page flows" is not broken. In other words you use the application or site the way it is supposed to be used ,not jumping from here and there.
2006-09-27 00:04:26 · answer #5 · answered by rjha94 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've found that happening when the site that has no back button has actually opened in a new window. The other page is still on my computer, just not in the front window anymore.
2006-09-27 00:04:45 · answer #6 · answered by barbiehow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you have ur history turned off in ur internet setting, cause I have never run into that proplem before , any page I go to is stored in my history & I just press the back button on my browser & the last page is always there.
2006-09-26 23:58:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As with programmers, not all web pages are created equal!
2006-09-27 00:08:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have a time limit because there is a lot of demand for the server or it is a secure site and no backtracking alowed
Take care!
2006-09-26 23:57:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they have tracking cookies they want you to take home with you. Get e-wido from Grisoft.com.
2006-09-27 00:02:07 · answer #10 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋