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		pbreit on Jan 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the Usability of Codecademy I hate, hate, hate that the "delete" button (I guess it's "backspace" on other PCs) goes back a page in the browser.

da_n on Jan 16, 2012 [–]

It doesn't go back, it actually deletes the page from the internet. Since the page has been trashed, the only logical result is to take you back one history state.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

pbreit on Jan 17, 2012 | [–]

Whatever it does, it causes lots of totally unexpected data loss.

pbreit on Jan 17, 2012 | | [–]

Why the downvotes?

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