[Spambayes] Illogicality in the Web UI?

[Nicholas]

Skip,

Why not use JavaScript to open a new window? Then you could control the size
of the new window, as well as the other properties JavaScript would offer
you (and that target=_blank would not.) I'm for either idea, though. It
definitely should open in a new window, and in fact that was the behavior I
was expecting when I first started to goof with the web interface.

-Nicholas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]
> On Behalf Of Skip Montanaro
> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 11:30 AM
> To: robert at imagine.co.uk
> Cc: SpamBayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Illogicality in the Web UI?
>
> This is, unfortunately, a feature of your web browser.  Some browsers
> simply
> insist on refetching the page when you hit the back button.  I'm not sure
> if
> there's anything the sb_server.py-generated HTML can do to keep that from
> happening (maybe there's some magic HTTP header that will stop it).  I
> suppose we could add a "target" attribute to the clues links to force the
> clues pages to open in a new window.  I'd personally find that a bit
> annoying though.  (My browser, Safari, doesn't suffer from reload-itis.)
> Is
> there some way you can force the clues page to open in a new window
> (button
> 2 click, hold down a modifier key, whatever)?  What about using a
> different
> browser?  If so, that would be a reasonable workaround until a more
> generally acceptable solution can be found.
> 
> Skip