feauture request: remove page where I voted from browser history

[Discipulus]

Hello pmdev and all,

just a small change, but maybe hard to implement, of a behaviour I find a bit annoying.

• actual behaviour If I go from page A to page B and then I vote for some node the page refresh afeter hitting the stumbit buttom. So if I use the Back button of the browser I find myself still in page B
  
  
• desired behaviour I vote for some node in page B and if I go back in history with the browser I land in A

We discused a bit in the chat this morning and I realized that here (thankfully and hopefully) JS is almost restricted for security reasons. But anyway there are two possible approaches:

• make the vote something inline within the page as suggested by an uberwise monk, so that clicking the voting button does not reload the page via a submit button but records the vote
  
  
• use the OnSubmit (or whatever is called) to remove the page from browser history

Do you thing it is something worth to implement?

L*

[LanX]

Hi

Your Mother implemented something called Ajax-Voting as Free Nodelet hack.

You may be interested in

• Ajax voting and modern formatting on PerlMonks
• Voting inside longer subthreads with jump marks

HTH :)

[choroba]

You can try experimenting with adding JavaScript to your Free Nodelet. See Delete last item in Browser History or JavaScript APIs: history.

[hippo]

Do you thing it is something worth to implement?

Not globally. The current behaviour is the one I expect, even if it is unintuitive for you.

I would also tend to argue mildly against 1-click voting: it becomes too easy to click by mistake (or indeed too soon where reading a reply afterwards might cause you to re-evaluate your vote) and if a monk wants to vote on a lot of nodes on one page then that results in more round-tripping to the servers than just submitting the whole form once as is now the case.