Al Ian wrote:
you can remove them from the window by using a pop up... Sure, but the user probably still has a right-click menu option to turn them back on again for that window, or he might have disabled pop-up windows alltogether (they are nearly always "spam" commercials). And you've just pissed him off a bit at having to do it.
There is a way to disable the back button. Sure, but it needs JavaScript enabled and the JavaScript policies set to allow reading/manipulation of the history list. And you've just pissed your user off (who just wanted to look what the previous page said) a little bit more.
How long before you irritate your users enough that they go somewhere else instead ?
I'm not denying that these are interesting and potentially useful techniques. I do, however, want people to
think about how uers might feel about things which work everywhere else (like the BACK button) being made needlessly difficult for them.
Please, think of these sort of techniques like pushing your car rather than driving it. It might make sense when you've run out of gas or it won't start, but even though it gets you where you want to go you'd have to be mad to do it by choice.
And, please tell us a bit more about your application and its need for this. If that car really does need a push, it's easier with lots of people