Kill the Back Button?

One of the long-standing hassles of browser-based apps has been the tendency for such apps to violate to web paradigm. It’s a challenge for all AJAX developers to create consistent back-button behavior. Our Mike Riley brought up this point while interviewing Ben Watson from Adobe about rich internet apps and Adobe's Flex Builder 2 IDE. Rather than accommodate it, Ben's preference would be to kill it outright. The issue is bound to persist as long as apps are built within a sequential, page-based model. What’s your opinion?

Posted by John Dorsey at 08:45 PM  Permalink