[ervier]

Have you ever had this? You search the MacNN forums, get the results screen, and click on a link. The thread you see is not what you're searching for, so click the back-button. The search is executed with a Post-form, which means you have to resubmit the form, which means you do the complete search again.

So this happens almost every time I use the search page, as I don't use it that often. The next link I use, I open in another window (right-click etc).

Why don't you do this automatically? I suppose quite a lot users do this, so they resubmit their search form, which is time consuming, annoying, and an extra burden to the server and to the other users. Please change this, or at least make a checkbox with this option (default = open in new window).

[awaspaas]

This has bugged me for a long time. Isn't there some way to tell the browser to at least cache the search results page so it's not resubmitted when you hit the back button? I've seen it work that way at other forums but never here.

[Moonray]

Originally posted by ervier:
Why don't you do this automatically? I suppose quite a lot users do this, so they resubmit their search form, which is time consuming, annoying, and an extra burden to the server and to the other users. Please change this, or at least make a checkbox with this option (default = open in new window).

Many users like me won't like that another window gets opened. What are you doing with the other window after you opened the right new one? Close it and move the new window back to the other position?

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[ervier]

Originally posted by Moonray:
Many users like me won't like that another window gets opened. What are you doing with the other window after you opened the right new one? Close it and move the new window back to the other position?

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What I do is just read the thread and close the window. Then I have the search results right there in front of me in the original window.

Of course I would prefer that the search was performed as a GET-action, so that the page was cached by the browser and the back button would work normally. And I don't understand why it doesn't work this way. If you would go to a form to edit your profile, a POST would be reasonable. But a POST for search results is not really necessary, only if you really need to have those results from the last minute, and those are on top of the forum lists anyway.

I wonder what you do?! Do you resubmit the search every time???

[Moonray]

Originally posted by ervier:
I wonder what you do?! Do you resubmit the search every time???

No, I use my middle mouse button to open the interesting results in new tabs.

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