- Use window.location.replace() until the text box loses focus, or the list is scrolled, or for a bit of time, or something to indicate that the user has finished typing out a query, and then use window.location.assign()?
Navigating back immediately replaces the query in the url with what's in the textbox making back useless, and the history has a ton of entries (one for each character typed). Without those changes, navigating back is a painful experience, but with them it should be significantly easier.
Yes, the broken back behaviour is the really serious negative with this map. I had to abandon my browser tab to go back to hacker news to complain about this! Please fix it! :)
- On back-nav, grab the query from the URL.
- Use window.location.replace() until the text box loses focus, or the list is scrolled, or for a bit of time, or something to indicate that the user has finished typing out a query, and then use window.location.assign()?
Navigating back immediately replaces the query in the url with what's in the textbox making back useless, and the history has a ton of entries (one for each character typed). Without those changes, navigating back is a painful experience, but with them it should be significantly easier.