Alex Russell — Stuff That Doesn’t Fit in My Brain
The back button is one of those things that until recently I’ve considered an unfortunate casualty of the move from web pages to DHTML/CADEX applications. location.replace() and the history-less behavior of XMLHTTP have elicited foot-shuffling, eye-averting mumbling from people building responsive UIs when asked “what about the back button?”.
A couple of suggested solutions to the back-button problem in Rich Internet Applications