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Browsers need a "Return without resending" option...
1 point by TimothyBurgess on Feb 11, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
This is just a pet peeve of mine.

I get pretty annoyed when I can't hit my back button or refresh a page without resending post data (if post data was previously submitted of course).

The only two options have always been "Resend" or "Cancel"... and a lot of the time I just want to get back to that page without resending the POST data. I do realize that sometimes the content of the page is dependent on that data but 9 times out of 10, it's not.

It seems that anytime I want to return to the page, I have to manually re-enter the URL or select a few steps back into my history.

Anyone know why the only options are "Resend" and "Cancel"?



get in.

the pattern is called redirect after post. It doesn't require browser changes it requires web developers to add 1 line of code.


But what if I do like the option of being able to resend the data?

Browsers should include 3 options with this alert:

Resend, Don't Resend, & Cancel


For instance, the current #2 link on HN leads to:

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/02/11/bing-smacks-googl...

And if you wait a few seconds and hit your back button to return to HN, the "Resend/Cancel" window pops up (unexpectedly!)... I find it pretty annoying that I suddenly have to click it to do anything else.




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