On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:38:32PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > What is your setting for: > > > > Edit->Preferences->advanced->cache->Compare the page in the > > cache to the page on the network > > When the page is out of date.
See the other email but I can't even get Mozilla to reload the page when I set a max-age=0 for a page -- which to me means it isn't revalidating when it should be. > > How many other sites simply change the name of the file in the link to > > the style sheet/s when you change their config? > > I have no idea. Why can't you use what lyx.org uses now, which is a lot > better ? Because it isn't better. The appended "?long=1" etc. are mishandled by some browsers who cache that URL so that when you set two customise options in a row you don't get what you'd expect -- ie. both settings in operation. And it gets worse when you then click on the first option again. The separate site_preferences.php3 is an attempt to solve that problem and give a clearer idea of what the customise options do. > > Again I'll ask you if you see a change in the source for the page > > after a change of site preference. You only need to look at the link > > lines in the header to see if the names of the css style sheets have > > changed. If they changed then the cookies worked and the browser has > > simply failed to redraw. > > They didn't work, I selected blue, clicked customise, and got a style > link to simple-black. This happens reasonably intermittently. Hit reload. Although at present the changes I've made to my site should now work okay once you've refreshed what's in your cache -- you will almost certainly have to do this by hand (M-r or is C-r these days?) unless you set Mozilla to check each time you view a page -- in which case you wouldn't be seeing these problems. > Click on a link, then I'm back to the style I chose. It's possible, I > suppose, that it's a Mozilla bug, but I strongly doubt it. That's because Mozilla didn't revalidate. Check the cookies and they will be correct. Allan. (ARRae)
