On Monday 30 June 2003 2:31 pm, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:18:37PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > hmmm, i think this breaks the back button.
> >
> > open ./jun-6/_/edit
> > fill out form
> > click save (new record id = 6)
> > oops, make a mistake, now click back.
> >
> > quixote goes to ./jun-6/_/edit not ./jun-6/6/edit
> >
> > i don't think you can rely on a browser refresh when someone
> > clicks the back button.
>
> Using "form tokens" will prevent a form from being submitted twice.
> That's nice for lots of reasons.  However, it's usually a good idea
> to disable them for forms that simply query the DB.

hadn't seen that quixote feature before, that's handy.

however, it's not clear to me how using form tokens would help.

from a user experience, if they click save, back, then save again, the
second save click should have the same behavior as the first.  at
least that would be this user's expectation.

mark