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minus-squarehcbxzz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 hours agoWho the fuck added this “feature” anyways. Pages shouldn’t have any control over history in the first place.
minus-squarePhunter@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoHumans are weird and UX wants the web app to behave how humans expect it to behave. That’s how we got here. There’s a whole host of reasons why manipulating browser history is awful, but here we are.
Who the fuck added this “feature” anyways. Pages shouldn’t have any control over history in the first place.
Humans are weird and UX wants the web app to behave how humans expect it to behave. That’s how we got here. There’s a whole host of reasons why manipulating browser history is awful, but here we are.