Why doesn’t Lemmy have a back button?
It’s really confusing me why Lemmy doesn’t have a back button when you are browsing via the web. Is this something that just got missed or is it meant to be like that?
Why doesn’t Lemmy have a back button?
It’s really confusing me why Lemmy doesn’t have a back button when you are browsing via the web. Is this something that just got missed or is it meant to be like that?
Because your browser has one. Why would you need a second?
And there’s also always backspace/alt+left
Not everyone knows shortcuts, great for those that are wanting to be more quick / know the shortcuts but for a general user experience it could be frustrating especially when you are browsing in a webapp on an iphone or something.
Ahhh… iPhone. That’s the issue. Android has a back button but for some reason iPhones have always preferred gestures and “the one button”.
I don’t mean to be tech elitist but browsers and other phones have built in ways to easily manage navigation. I’d rather that sites didn’t adopt extraneous UI elements to make up for device shortcomings.
Even if there is an issue, it would hit every single website out there. Like, Option 1: the browser works the same way all of the others out there do. Option 2: All of the websites out there adapt to one browser. There is no way that Option 2 is a sane choice.
How did this happen, anyway?
kagis
https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/syyab1/the_reason_theres_no_back_button/
Well, having websites individually implement a back button sure isn’t gonna be more-consistent from a UI standpoint.
EDIT: And I kind of suspect that swiping is probably also less-consistently-used, just because there are going to be programs where one can’t reasonably dedicate swiping to “back”, so this creates a situation where you have feature collision with entirely unrelated features.
iPhone you just swipe right to navigate to the previous web page.
Not everyone is used to pressing back and forwards on there browser and it will often be hidden if you use the page as web-app through certain devices.
first thing i do on a new browser install is rearrange the toolbar a bit.
That’s the most cursed toolbar I’ve seen and I love it! Kinda like vertical tabs were at first sight I guess
How do you find having the navigation buttons in the middle? It seems like it would be a bit harder to hit them?
when i first started doing this years ago in the early versions of firefox, the back button was bigger than the rest.
but i’ve long since gotten used to it. and i like it a lot better in the middle than way tf over on the left side. it’s closer to all the other stuff up there (such as the extension buttons, which i use frequently) and to the scroll bars–which are largely unneeded with scroll wheels or touch these days, but i didn’t have a wheely mouse way back when.
the only thing that would take me up to the top left was the menu bar, but i don’t use that much anymore with the hamburger menu on the far right, so the menu bar is off (alt brings it back).
re-enabling the separate search box is significant. suggestions (the ones that transmit keystrokes to the search engine) are disabled in the address bar, but not the search box.
the button to bring-up the sidebar is logically placed–above where the sidebar appears.
the bookmark toolbar, which is not visible here because it’s set to only show on ‘newtab’ has the bookmark menu icon on its far left before the bookmarks themselves, and the ‘most visited’ smart boomkark is re-enabled up there too.
Thanks for the explanation! It makes a lot of sense.
What’s the benefit of splitting your address and search bars?
My grandmother is over 100. She knows how to use a browser back button.
LOL “not everyone knows how to use the browser back button.”
Those certain devices have a back button too.
Often on new iPhones it can be hard to go back if you’ve put the website on your homepage.