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    back and forward buttons?

    Is there anyway to make the browsers back and forward buttons work within a flash movie? I'm thinking something with a variable being set every time you enter a new page and then when the user hit's the back button you could use that variable to enter the previous page?

    Is something like that even possible????


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    named anchors were supposed to solve this problem, but I have yet to hear a success story with it.

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    How do you get that to work on Opera?

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    You talking about Penner's thing?

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    Yes, Opera doesn't rerun javascript when you hit the back/forward buttons.

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    Why use Opera then?

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    LOL, because there are more Opera users than Netscape users.

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    Not working

    That's not really working.....I'm running OSX and it only works in Netscape and not in Internet Explore or Safari???

    Mik
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    Here's a different version that works on Opera, but not on IE:
    http://mcfalski.cjb.net/back/

    sorry, wrong url
    Last edited by McFalski; 08-08-2003 at 04:07 PM.

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    Here are the files for the IE/NS version:
    Attached Files Attached Files

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    And here's the Opera/NS version:

    Any help in making one that would work on all browsers would be appreciated.
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    *latest version*

    Works on IE, NS/Moz, and Opera

    *Note*: IE doesn't work offline because it doesn't allow query strings on local documents. (Works great online)
    Please check with Mac browsers
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    Last edited by McFalski; 08-08-2003 at 08:56 PM.

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    wow

    this is absolutely brilliant, thanks McFalski.

    I'm going to try and understand how it works now!

    I know I'm being picky, but do you think you could make pages bookmarkable in opera? They are in Moz/NN and IE which is fab. Also, do you know why IE bookmarks each page with it's own title, whereas NN bookmarks each one with the directory name.

    Anyone tried it on a mac yet?

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    weird. it doesn't seem to be working at all in Mozilla 1.4 any ideas? I thought anything that worked in netscape automatically worked in Moz...

    Is there a way to fool the browser into using a completely alternative history, say an XML file, just for your domain?

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    I'm using Mozilla 1.4 and it works for me.

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