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Sun 2009-11-15

How did they manage this?

Filed under: — daniel @ 16:29

What on earth have The Age been doing to their web site that breaks the web browser Back button and history so badly?

theage.com.au breaks web browser history

Update: I may have helped bring this upon myself; see comments

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3 Responses to “How did they manage this?”

  1. Paul says:
    Mon 2009-11-16 at 10:16

    Works for me. I just browsed from the home page to the top 5 articles and they all show up correctly on the back button. Using Chrome 4.0.223.11 under Windows7. Disclaimer: I work for Fairfax.

  2. daniel says:
    Mon 2009-11-16 at 12:14

    Ah. It may be a side effect of my adding direct.fairfax.com.au into my hosts file as 127.0.0.1 — most of the ads don’t bother me, but the recent trend on Fairfax sites of playing video with sound really pisses me off. Particularly late-at-night when that heart attack one starts playing its voiceover; has scared the bejesus out of me more than once! (See discussion on Whirlpool)

    But now I wonder if this makes Chrome do funny things if it can’t see the adverts. Will try removing it when I get the chance and will see what happens.

  3. Chris Till says:
    Mon 2009-11-16 at 20:18

    >> the recent trend on Fairfax sites of playing video with sound really pisses me off. Particularly late-at-night when that heart attack one starts playing its voiceover

    It’s not just night-time, it’s completely inappropriate for websites to blurt out audio across the office when you’re trying to look something up at work as well. I just immediately close the window and find the content I’m after elsewhere, damned if I’m going to spend one second longer on a website that’s going to shove that crap down my throat.

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