This method is simply the equivalent of history.go(-1).
A negative number, makes the history go backwards. Again, this is just a simple (and numberless) way to go back to a page the user came from. Its application could be similar to a forward button, that is, creating a full-screen web app and providing the user with an interface to navigate by.
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