Re:Chrome removes Backspace to go back
by pmarreck on Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:19AM
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I'm pretty sure it was Internet Explorer that started this horrible, terrible user interface fiasco.
Backspace (despite the name) is for deletion, should only be for deletion, and avoids confusion by only being for deletion. Period.
I don't see what's so hard about control/command-leftbracket or left arrow or whatever you want to assign to "go back". At least you won't accidentally wipe a form.
Anyway, this isn't about you or me, as someone else said, because forward state could be theoretically preserved. The problem is the 99% of "regular people" who will hit Backspace, not realize that they DIDN'T just lose their form and can just hit Forward again, and will redo the work and get frustrated.
Backspace (despite the name) is for deletion, should only be for deletion, and avoids confusion by only being for deletion. Period.
I don't see what's so hard about control/command-leftbracket or left arrow or whatever you want to assign to "go back". At least you won't accidentally wipe a form.
Anyway, this isn't about you or me, as someone else said, because forward state could be theoretically preserved. The problem is the 99% of "regular people" who will hit Backspace, not realize that they DIDN'T just lose their form and can just hit Forward again, and will redo the work and get frustrated.