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Posted by alice on 08/09/07 18:19
On Aug 9, 10:29 am, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.m...@example.invalid> wrote:
> alice wrote:
> > But my concern is, will anyone going to this page the first time using
> > Firefox also have to clear their cache in order to get it to display
> > the correct color?
>
> Maybe, but only if they had visited the page before you changed the
> color. New visitors will see it as you've coded it - _unless_ the page
> is being cached at some in-the-path caching server.
>
> Browsers can also be set to "fetch a new copy on every visit" in which
> case you would have seen red text immediately.
>
> > That is not desireable. There must be a way to code a page to get
> > Firefox to display colors correctly the first time.
>
> Same thing would occur with other browsers. You can't control a
> visitor's browser cache.
>
> Yeah, I know you said "In IE and Safari it was red the first time" and
> it would be that way if they (those browsers) never visited before.
>
> --
> -bts
> -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
I guess I still don't understand why it was black the first time I
loaded the page. If that happened on my computer, why wouldn't it
happen on other computers?
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