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Mind Your Back Button

Browser Wars Your browser is not only your window on the World Wide Web it is your dashboard. The browser is one of the most useful and user friendly applications you will find on your computer and many, many hours have been invested in making it so. Years ago Netscape and Microsoft were battling it out in what have been called the browser wars and it is safe to say that Microsoft won with their Internet Explorer. Not so unanimous is the opinion that Microsoft won because their browser was better or more user friendly. Internet Explorer may have been better than Netscape Navigator but that was not the deciding factor. The fact is: for most people, Internet Explorer is the browser they are familiar with and in typical circular reasoning it is therefore their preferred web client. In a similar fashion website design has tended to follow certain trends in page navigation and as we become familiar with the techniques employed by the designers we expect websites to behave in the w