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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Pete on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @16:11

Yeah, +1 saving the up arrow in Konq.

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Troy Unrau on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @16:44

I didn't say it's going away either :) I was just using it as an example of a button that is less than intuitive for many websites. What does it do when using gmail? it breaks the website (last I checked). Works great on dot.kde.org though... I use it after I post a comment to go back to the article quickly :)

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Maarten ter Huurne on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @17:36

The back button breaks a lot of sites too. But that is caused by (ab)using the browser as an application platform rather than a hypertext viewer, so the back button is not really to blame. (I like web apps, but they are definitely something web browsers were not designed for.)

I find the up arrow very useful: if you come in via a search you often find yourself somewhere deep down in the tree structure of a site and on many sites navigation controls are either missing or not obvious, making the up arrow a quicker alternative.

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @18:09

+1 for up button

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Paul on Friday 02/Mar/2007, @01:56

Me too,

The up arrow is a great feature for web browsing, something I immediately miss when using firefox.

Yes it does have limitations, but it's very useful to getting to a site's toplevel page after landing deep inside it having followed a websearch result.

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Glenn on Friday 02/Mar/2007, @16:43

Firefox has a plugin called konqefox or similar, based on the knonqueror functionality. Some other plugins also provide this. And check out the buttons in FFox 2!

Konqueror definately lead the way with this button, and I consider browsers without it to be broken, especially when you consider the social bookmarking sites that link to deep structures, and you want to have a nosey round the site :)

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by LB on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @14:59

Please check again, up-button works fine in gmail, it brings you to your overall view of your mailbox. In my personal experience there are very few websites that really break with the up-button.

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Re: 'Up' arrow whe webgrowsing
by Brandon on Friday 02/Mar/2007, @19:35

Mark me down for the "up" arrow (and the "clear" / "enter" clickable buttons by the url, they save a boat-load of time for me...)

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