2009/06/28

The ever diminishing refresh/reload button in browsers, part II

After searching various forums I came across a plausible answer:

Most people don't use the refresh button. They might visit the site once and later go back at a later point. Since I am doing development and prototyping work I frequently reload the site many times to check the changes. I thought that users would use the refresh the site if it got stalled during load. That is probably to advanced for many of them.

However I stand by my first blog entry, what harm could that button possibly have done when it was big and accessible. Why hide it?

But bottom line, know your users and you are not a user.

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