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1. Re: Enabling Browser Back Button
Zabeth69 Sep 19, 2009 9:49 AM (in response to BearHNC)Don't know if it's possible, or not, but DON'T MESS WITH THE USER'S BROWSER SETTINGS!!!
If you don't want the user to employ the Browser's back button, give them a more attractive alternative.
Beth
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2. Re: Enabling Browser Back Button
Nancy O. Sep 19, 2009 10:49 AM (in response to BearHNC)I have a flash site and I would like to have the browser back button greyed out (enabled) to help user elivate confusion.
Well, you've certainly elevated my confusion. "Grayed out" usually means the feature is DISABLED; not enabled. So which is it? Do you want to disable or enable the browser Back function (aka history tools)? And how will this help alleviate user confusion? Maybe if you posted a URL to your site, it would help make things clearer for us...
Nancy O.
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3. Re: Enabling Browser Back Button
BearHNC Sep 21, 2009 9:42 AM (in response to Nancy O.)Sorry didn't mean to confuse you, Friday was a long day, I want to disable the back button. To be honest I don't really like the idea of doing this, but my boss wants it this way, so be it. The site isn't live so a link won't do any good. Here is the code I had found something that siad would work but when I viewed it on our mirror site it didn't so maybe you can help me find where I went wrong.
Thanks,
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><meta name="keywords" content="modular mining, modular mining systems, modular, mmsi, modular mining system, mmsi.com, modular mining systems inc, modular mining tucson, modular mining systems, inc, minecare, modular dispatch, intellimine, dispatch mining, modular minecare, modular dispatch system, mine dispatch, dispatch mine, mining dispatch, dispatch modular, modular - dispatch, modular mining dispatch, dispatcsystem mining, mine dispatch systems, modular intellimine, modular mining dispatch system, mining dispatch system, truck dispatch system, modular mining minecare, mine dispatch system, gps systems, fleet gps tracking, real time gps tracking, gps tracking system, gps tracking software, gps equipment, high precision gps, gps fleet management, fleet management, vehicle tracking, equipment tracking system, vehicle tracking system, global positioning systems, position tracking, asset management software, asset health, autonomous haul truck, autonomous, information management, performance management, mining jobs, coal mining,gold mining, copper mining, mining, optimization, proximity detection, machine guidance, production tracking, vital signs monitoring">
<title>Modular Mining Systems Website</title>
<script language="javascript">AC_FL_RunContent = 0;</script>
<script>
function backButtonOverride()
{
// Work around a Safari bug
// that sometimes produces a blank page
setTimeout("backButtonOverrideBody()", 1);}
function backButtonOverrideBody()
{
// Works if we backed up to get here
try {
history.forward();
} catch (e) {
// OK to ignore
}
// Every quarter-second, try again. The only
// guaranteed method for Opera, Firefox,
// and Safari, which don't always call
// onLoad but *do* resume any timers when
// returning to a page
setTimeout("backButtonOverrideBody()", 500);
}
</script>
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="javascript"></script><style type="text/css">
body {
margin-top: 0px;
background-image: url(images/gradientRepeat.jpg);
background-color: #3C4852;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
#container {
width: 800px; /* to fit in an 800px wide browser */
margin: 0 auto; /* no top or bottom margin and auto left-right */
border: solid 1px #000000;
}</style></head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<script language="javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0','widt h','800','height','645','id','ModularWebsite','align','middle','src','ProgressBar','qualit y','high','bgcolor','#cccccc','name','ModularWebsite','allowscriptaccess','sameDomain','al lowfullscreen','true','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie', 'ProgressBar' ); //end AC code
}
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="800" height="645" id="ModularWebsite" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="movie" value="ProgressBar.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#cccccc" />
<embed src="ProgressBar.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="800" height="645" name="ModularWebsite" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</noscript>
</div>
</body>
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4. Re: Enabling Browser Back Button
Nancy O. Sep 22, 2009 12:02 PM (in response to BearHNC)FYI there is no 100% reliable way of disabling the Back button. The best you can do is make it harder for people to find an active one. But anyone with a little common sense can defeat this using "right click" or their "History Menu."
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/buttons/article.php/3478911
Nancy O.
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5. Re: Enabling Browser Back Button
VideoFlashLondon Feb 6, 2013 3:44 AM (in response to BearHNC)It's recommended to use SWFAddress. Look at the following tutorial:
http://fcontheweb.com/articles/swfaddress_as3/
Working now on implementation for fleet management website.




