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[–] [email protected] 113 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (26 children)

Anyone that builds a SPA and breaks opening in new tab or history caching and back/forward nav isn't a good frontend developer (or lacks experience, which is something that's fixable!). These have been solved problems for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (15 children)

I mean, for sure, and this meme isn't trying to say that all SPAs are bad. But defaults matter, even for experts.

This meme was inspired after I had to use an SPA, which among those points in the meme, also broke using Alt+Left to navigate back. The normal back-button worked (even if it then had to load for ten seconds to re-display static content).

Which is just a typical example to me. You don't even need much expertise to figure out why Alt+Left is broken. But you have to think of testing Alt+Left, because it's broken by default.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (12 children)

My friend I've been using the Internet for 27 years and developing for it for most of that time and I can promise you I've never once hit Alt+Left

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I started using alt+left when browsers started removing backspace. It was for the best.

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