Closed Bug 149409 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Clarification to reported Javascript:history.go(#); problem.

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

PowerPC
Mac System 9.x
defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 146268

People

(Reporter: jgrubic, Assigned: radha)

References

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Details

Hello: I have done some more extensive testing on this problem, and wished to report my results. In Netscape 3/4x, IE 5.x, etc. the javascript:history.go(-3); jumps to a specific previous page in a form-based site. These browsers all work identically. Mozilla 1 .0 and Netscape 7 jump one page further back. I believe that I now know why in our situation it is doing this. On our form-based site, we use a <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1;URL=http://www.testsite.com"> to get to a specific page automatically (we do this to pass certain parameters to Lasso, a database manipulation tool). It is my opinion that Mozilla 1.0/Netscape 7 is not counting this refresh page in the history list, and the older browsers are. This is of course a minor issue and I doubt that anyone else would ever see this. It's easier for us to set up our site in a different way than it is for you to go through mountains of code looking for a trivial problem. On regular sites with no automatic refreshes, the javascript:history.go(#); works correctly. Thank you, and keep up the great work on Mozilla. James
-> History
Assignee: Matti → radha
Component: Browser-General → History: Session
QA Contact: imajes-qa → claudius
Resolving as dup of reporter's original bug 146268 and adding comment there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146268 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: History: Session → Document Navigation
QA Contact: claudius → docshell
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