[racket-dev] [racket] Exploratory programming?

In Safari this error doesn't show up. 

On Dec 1, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Four hours ago, engineer at alum.mit.edu wrote:
>> 
>> 2.  Search Manuals breaks the browser's Back button.  Here's a simple
>> example.
>> a. Open http://docs.racket-lang.org/
>> b. Type "modulus" in the "search manuals" box and hit Enter
>> c. No matches found, so change the highlighted text to "modulo"
>> d. Click on one of the results
>> e. Click the browser's back button
>> f. I'm not "back" at the list of results
>> 
>> I have been very impressed with the level of documentation, but I
>> (and my students) have often found frustration in searching.
> 
> That's an issue with URLs and with how your browser decides to
> implement history navigation.  When you're done with (b), you get to
> the search page with the query in the url "...?q=modulus".  You now
> change the string and follow a link, then go back -- to the same url
> with the original query.  At this point, Chrome reinitializes the page
> in a way that makes "modulus" re-appear in the input field, while
> FireFox preserves the state as you left it and will not do that.  I
> know how to make FF behave like Chrome, but that involves
> re-initializing the page, which means that using the back button will
> be much more painful.
> 
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