AJAX and the Back Button Problem

If you are starting out in your first Ajax based program, one of the biggest challenges that you have to face is to let your users remember not to hit the back button. Most of the time, Ajax based programs does not like the back button.

Unfortunately, Ajax does not have that functionality in bookmarking the previous page so that it could be reloaded anytime. With this development or some call it a disability; it is quite clear that today’s browsers were built without thinking of the possibility that a back might be extinct one day. It also goes to show that Ajax is way bigger than browsers and Ajax will definitely be going out of the browser one day.

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