[racket-dev] [racket] Exploratory programming?

My FF and IE behave as does Chrome.  I've heavily configure my FF and may
have messed it up, but my IE is quite vanilla.

-Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Barzilay [mailto:eli at barzilay.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:52 PM
> To: engineer at alum.mit.edu
> Cc: 'dev'; lukejordan at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [racket-dev] [racket] Exploratory programming?
> 
> 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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