Must web apps support back button?

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Published on 2009-05-05T09:06:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 10:57 UTC
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I did a system test on a new ASP.NET app. I encountered several exceptions when using the BACK button in my browser (IE 7).

I stated in a review-record that the web-app must support the use of a BACK button (or at least handle it gracefully with for example session-time out warnings). The teamlead did not agree with me as he stated that a web-app should not support working with the back-button by default.

Do you agree?

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