Descriptive Problem Summary:
The back button in the DM Help files doesn't keep track of pages you visit through link on other pages. Any pages visited through links count as the last page you came across using the pane on the left.
Clicking 'Back' will not take you back to the last page you were on, but the last page that you visited by clicking a topic in the Content/Topic/Search pane.
This makes it extremely annoying to use, especially when using pages such as "procs (list)," or "vars (area)."
Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
1) Hit F1 to open the Help files.
2) Navigate to the Topic tab.
3) Open the topic tilted "procs (list)."
4) Click on any of the links on the page.
*Note that the back button is still unusable.
5) Open any random Topic.
6) Now open "procs (list)" again and click any link.
7) Click the back button.
*You should be taken back to the random topic you picked before the "procs (list)" page.
Expected Results:
Be taken back to the "procs (list)" page.
Actual Results:
Taken to the page prior to the "procs (list)" page.
This has been annoying for as long as i can remember using DM.
ID:79655
 Aug 18 2009, 8:10 am
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Aug 18 2009, 12:55 pm
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Lummox JR
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I can confirm this. This seems to be an issue with the way IE is responding to links internally. We're navigating to a new page during the process of the internal browser control checking to see if it should handle a link on its own. This seems to skip past whatever logic in IE forces the new page to be added to its history. I'm not yet sure how to go about solving this.
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