Back buttons should never re-submit form contents

I'm not sure a back button should *ever* re-submit a form. It's a side-effect of the stateless web, but it's certainly not a feature that is designed. Augmenting the behavior would probably just confuse people more. With Ajax (and other technologies) the notion that sending data to the server automatically sends you to *another* page is becoming a bit obsolete anyway.

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John

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