Re: bug about SSL security certificate -- Mantis grrrr

The following bytes were arranged on 25 Sep 2014 by Rob Kendrick :

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:38:07PM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote:
> > So I click "go back".
> > And there is a blank page expecting me to fill in ALL the info again.
> > Grrrrr.
>
> This is a problem with NetSurf, not the bug tracker. Modern browsers
> annotate history information with form data. We have a plan to do that
> too.

I would venture to suggest that it is more a problem with the bug
tracker. The correct response to invalid input in a form is to display
the form again, with the input the user just submitted, and the
offending fields highlighted and annotated, not to redirect to a blank
(and uninformative) error page and rely on a convenience feature in the
browser to prevent the user's data from being summarily deleted. You
need not look very far on the modern web to see examples of this in
action. For example, most forums will do it for you.

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