JavaScript - bfcache/pageshow event - event.persisted always set to false?

Question

In a standard Java / SpringMVC / JSP / jQuery web-app, I\'m trying to detect a \"Back\" (or history.go(-1)) event, in order to refresh (AJAX) a summary component/panel content w

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in Chrome (also present in IE11).

I have found the following workaround:

This exploits the fact that in most browsers, when the page is loaded from the cache, form fields values are also conserved.