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mitomac

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Registered: 2005-03-12

Posts: 1

Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

Greetings,

I have had trouble using either htmlarea or xinha in firefox, because after loading the editor it renders the browsers back button useless.  I saw a reference in the wiki on this site to this being a firefox bug.  I've searched bugzilla and have found no reference of the bug.  Does anybody know the bug number so I can track this bug in bugzilla?  Or even better yet, a work around?

Thanks in advance,

mitomac

gogo

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2005-02-11

Posts: 1,015

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Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

Greetings,

I have had trouble using either htmlarea or xinha in firefox, because after loading the editor it renders the browsers back button useless.  I saw a reference in the wiki on this site to this being a firefox bug.  I've searched bugzilla and have found no reference of the bug.  Does anybody know the bug number so I can track this bug in bugzilla?  Or even better yet, a work around?

Thanks in advance,

mitomac

I believe this is the relevant bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264403 (it's essentially the same problem).  basically document.open, which is used to dynamically write the contents of the editor's iframe, inserts an item into the window history, when it shouldn't.

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adamp

Xinha Pro

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 77

Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but does anyone know of a workaround to this bug? It's a pretty big hindrance in any app that involves people moving back and forth between pages (e.g. forums).

niko

Xinha Authority

From: Salzburg/Austria

Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 338

Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votes.cgi? … _id=264403

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Niko

adamp

Xinha Pro

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 77

Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

Heh, good point.

paulb

Xinha Community Member

Registered: 2005-04-27

Posts: 12

Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

Cant you just remove those extra entries from the history using a bit of javascript?

adamp

Xinha Pro

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 77

Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

Might be a plan, but it'll take a more experienced javascript coder than I to say if it's possible.

kimss

Xinha Pro

From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-05

Posts: 99

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Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

A completely different approach would be to pop the CMS without back buttons. In general I never enjoy people using theese buttons inside a websystem, since this usually only brings problems with double posting and such. Often it gives us programmers more work, since we need to make our programs open for such back and forth activity of our users.

This ofcourse, didnt answer your question at all - but doing sp you could include your own back button on your page, in a consistent place which would do just the same. All theese ideas,

tomdavies

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 1

Re: Firefox, xinha (htmlarea) and back button

How does typepad, which uses some version of HTMLArea get around this bug? It works perfectly on firefox for me.