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> That's why we have amazing innovations like the back button, tabbed browsing, and bookmarks. Imagine a world where every website had its own buggy implementation of those.

Heh. We had a requirement to put in a back button. We put it in. Since no decent criteria were available to specify how it behaved, we just called history.back().

They did some user testing. Then they asked us to take it out again.

Never have I enjoyed taking on a ticket like I enjoyed taking out that stupid bloody back button.



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