RE: FLASH: back button in browser - oops

[Eric Dunham]

If you use window.location for your JavaScript detection routine

redirecting, it's very easy.

For example, say hasFlash is a predefined variable from another part of your

script, and that hasFlash will either have the value true or false (a

boolean variable). Then you could easily do:


(hasFlash)? window.location.replace(flashURL) :

window.location.replace(noflashURL);


Notice in this example that the variables flashURL and noflashURL would each

have corresponding values (or you could just put the URL string in quotes

inside the method call).

Basically what you're doing is replacing the value of the current document

in the user's history with a new document. When you do a normal

window.location() the user gets sent to a new page, and the browser history

gets incremented. With the replace() method, you are actually not adding a

new page to the user's browser history, you are simply replacing the current

value with one that you specified. Did that make sense? :)


HTH,

Eric Dunham


<snip>

I have a javascript on the home page of a site that directs the visitor to

a flash or nonflash page accordingly.  However, if they use their back

button to back out of the site when they hit the home page it redirects

them again and they can't back out.  Has anyone implemented a solution that

solves that problem?

</snip>



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