March 04, 2004
Safari bookmarks, you did me wrong.
I found out the hard way a big problem with the Safari bookmarks page, and it's functionality in relation to the site you were visiting when you clicked over to your bookmarks.
I was buying something from a site and had gotten to the end of my transaction. I was about to print the this page as my receipt and inadvertently clicked the bookmarks icon in my Bookmarks bar. No problem, I just clicked it again thinking I could easily return to the page I was on.
It seems that Safari doesn't cache this page - or thinks it must reload this page - so when the page was reloaded I was greeted with an error message from the site telling me that my transaction was complete and the page could not be loaded. This is because the page was the result of a form submission, not simply a static page.
I have not tested this on other pages to see if this happens all the time, but the fact that it happened once is enough testing for me. Safari should keep this page in memory, as if in an invisible tab, not reload the page from the site. This can't be too hard to accomplish.
Posted by jtnt at March 4, 2004 09:00 PM in Technology