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> the backspace key as "back" navigation

That was a ridiculous usability nightmare and was only popular due to muscle memory from IE doing it long ago (it was a terrible decision back then, too).

Good riddance to it, may no one ever again unfocus a form field by accident and wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.

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Good riddance indeed! A big thank you from me and my blood pressure to the developers who finally pushed through the removal of that godforsaken nightmare of a human interface feature :)

Agreed, and although I get that patches breaking muscle memory are annoying, the potential downsides to that are so disastrous that the arguments around it puzzle me quite a bit to this day.

In fact, the whole conversation surrounding this issue made me see for that, although hyperbolic, XKCD 1172 [1] actually isn't that contrived...

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/

> wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.

That's a bug in the browser caching design, not an issue with backspace navication.

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