All software is quite useless according to Tim Berners-Lee

[boyofbadgers]

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make backspace a keyboard shortcut for back in web browsers?

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make backspace a keyboard shortcut for back in web browsers?

I'd have thought Marc Andreessen and co at the NCSA in Illinois, given they invented browsers as we know them and that that's been there since Mosaic 1.0...

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

It's becoming rarer and rarer these days to go on a website where back does what you think it should do/is any use at all. Ruddy Ajax, etc.

Does anyone get that thing with LJ in Firefox where it thinks the last three historic pages are all the page you're on, so you have to hit back 3 times to actually go back 1? Doesn't happen in IE.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I don't know but it confuses the living bejaysis out of me on a regular basis.

[trayce.livejournal.com]

I use the backspace as "go back an page" all the time, since I worked out thats what it did! :)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Some browsers let you turn this off these days.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it's amazing just how capable computers are of RUINING EVERYTHING.