IE7 has no back button in popups

[Beth Agnew]

Perhaps the point, from a TW perspective, is that Microsoft seems to be 
on an interface-changing spree. We all know how irritating that is for 
the user. After years of having common elements in certain places in IE 
and MS Word, for example, we now have to relearn these applications. We 
come to expert certain behaviors from the software, and when it behaves 
differently, it trips us up. These are not intuitive changes, or we'd be 
able to find them. The MS Office function ribbon is supposedly designed 
to be more helpful, WYGIWYS as Jakob Nielsen puts it. But there's a 
performance drop while you get used to it.

We've had personal computers for more than 25 years now. There are no 
more "beginners" where computers are concerned, so why do companies like 
Microsoft feel they need to dumb everything down? Is anyone actually 
designing an intuitive, performance-supportive interface, or are they 
all just doing what they like and we have to get used to it?
--Beth

Beth Agnew
Professor, Technical Communication
Seneca College, Toronto

Rick Stone wrote:
> Hi Keith
>
> Sorry, but I don't get it. What's wrong with right-clicking and choosing 
> Back from the context menu?
>
> Keith Hansen wrote:
>   
>> I have IE7. In my browser, when I click on a link that opens a popup,
>> the popup opens--but no Back or Forward buttons are displayed on the
>> browser's toolbar. 
>