From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:37:03 +0000   
   Nuno Silva  wrote:   
      
   > I feel like linking   
   >   
   > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thepracticaldev/orly-full-re   
   /master/breakingthebackbutton-big.png   
   >   
   > (Text description which I used in a post [1] on a platform where this   
   > problem is present (Mastodon, in the official web UI):   
      
   Gah, *yes.* There are bigger offenders in terms of usability, but that   
   one stands out for sheer unnecessary malevolence; you have to *work* to   
   break it, which tells you a lot about the web designers who do.   
      
   > Mastodon's official web UI is quite strong on these issues. It's   
   > amazing that you get more from a "page info" dialog with the metadata   
   > than from looking at a post page without Javascript. That is, they   
   > are serving the post content inside HEAD as metadata, but refuse to   
   > make it easy to load it without JS. Even if it required JS to load   
   > replies, it's already serving text and images from the post, so it'd   
   > not cost more to put it in the body...   
      
   Profoundly aggravating - all the more coming from something developed   
   by people who are *supposed* to be more knowledgeable than the average   
   corporate IT drone.   
      
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