On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:50:30 +0200, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think those are a browser cache problem rather than
a bug - just
making a 'hard' reload (control-F5 or control-reload or control-R or
whatever) of the page probably would probably have worked as well as
re-uploading.
Can I just correct what seems to be a common piece of misinformation
regarding Mozilla and derivatives: Ctrl-R does *not* perform a Force
Reload; for that you need to also hold down Shift. I've suspected this
for some time, despite the opposite being widely claimed, and have
just checked the online Help (under Moz1.6), which under "Mozilla
Keyboard Shortcuts:Navigator Shortcuts:Page Viewing Shortcuts"
includes the following table fragment (sorry if it gets mangled by
non-proportionality of typefaces):
Command Windows Macintosh Linux
Reload Ctrl+R Cmd+R Ctrl+R
Force Reload (not from cache)
Ctrl+Shift+R Cmd+Shift+R Ctrl+Shift+R
The refresh button on the toolbar is similarly forced using the shift
key, or so the "Browsing the Web:Navigating Web Pages:Stopping and
Reloading" section of the same online manual implies: "To refresh the
current page and reset all changes made (if the page contains a form),
hold down the Shift key and click the Reload button, or press
Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac OS)."
I am about to correct the advice page on en.wikipedia
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Clear_your_cache) that has
this information wrong, but wanted to mention it here so that anybody
who sees it elsewhere can also correct it. It seems to be a rather
persistent myth, perhaps because pages marked no-cache will be flushed
from the browser's cache with or without modifier keys.
[Now I look, the instructions on that page for IE seem to be
incorrect, as well; I'll have to try and confirm that now...]
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]