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raverbashing on March 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Does Backspace Go Back A Page?

Yes, in Safari there's a more obvious visual indication.

I suspect that back and forth in Safari may be non-destructive as well (though I can't confirm this right now)

One of the things that makes it easy to swipe back by mistake is the apple trackpad, so I suspect Safari developers are aware of this and added the indication

kalleboo on March 22, 2014 [–]

> I suspect that back and forth in Safari may be non-destructive as well (though I can't confirm this right now)

I just tried swiping back and forth with this text in the Hacker News comment box and it didn't lose the content. I'm pretty sure I've had issues before, I think in relation to pages loaded by POST.

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