RE: Browser's Back button and BASE HREF

OK, bear with me, because I've only modified a few JavaScripts:   My
frameset doc (index.html) loads - among other things - the doc (nav_js.html)
that checks for hi or lo screen resolution, then redirects in this case to
nav_hires.html. The most recent history at any given point is the previous
document. Then the history for nav_js.html is index.html and the history for
nav_hires.html is nav_js.html. So I need to intercept this history process
and replace the current history with a url that is one step back? If that's
correct, I still don't understand if I can put my script in nav_js.html or
nav_hires.html by itself, or if it has to be part of the existing redirect
script in nav_js.html? I'm assuming the following script from irt.org is
what you folks are suggesting ...

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
if(document.images)
	location.replace('http://www.midwestent.com/SomePage.html');
else
	location.href = 'SomePageBackOneStep.html';
//--></SCRIPT>

Keith Purtell, Web Designer
VantageMed Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyanide _7 [mailto:leo7278(at)hotmail.com]
> Subject: RE: Browser's Back button and BASE HREF
>
> the problem is in the nav_js.html file. it redirects to the proper
> navigation page when the frameset is loaded. if one hits
> back, the browser
> uses that frames history and loads the redirect sending the
> visitor back
> where they came from. you could use the location.replace
> method to over
> write the history which was added in JS1.1, or you could run
> this check in
> the frameset document and write the proper frame tag. just a
> thought -
> Cyanide_7
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > We host several sites as "virtual servers," and each one
> > > > must have a BASE HREF tag in the head of the index
> > > > document.
> > >
> > > Why do they need a base href tag?  This doesn't have anything
> > > to do with virtual servers, or even virtual hosting for that
> > > matter.
> >
> >In the case of several versions of Netscape Enterprise 2.x, it is a
> >requirement. I've double-checked Netscape's docs. I'll agree
> if I may
> >change
> >your wording to "SHOULDN'T have anything to do ..."
> >
> > > > My problem is that this system disables the Back
> > > > button on browsers. Is there a JavaScript that
> > > > will store
> > >
> > > What browsers? What operating system? base href does not
> > > disable the back button on MS Windows-based Internet
> > > Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
> >
> >It does this (in my tests) with the IE5 and NN4.7 for
> Windows, and NN4.7
> >for
> >Mac. Here's a URL if you'd like to try it ...
http://www.midwestent.com/
>
>Keith Purtell, Web Designer
>VantageMed Corporation
>

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