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Posted by alice on 08/09/07 19:34
On Aug 9, 12:08 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
wrote:
> alice wrote:
> > 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.
>
> <snip signature>
>
> > 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?
>
> If it was black the *very first* time of loading the URL when the CSS
> specified red then it is not a caching error but more likely a markup
> and|or CSS syntax error. But without a URL to the actual code than it is
> anyone's guess.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
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This is what I'm wondering, but if it is an error in the code, that
implies that there is a bit of code that could make text a different
color the first time it is viewed in Firefox. So even though I don't
have that code in front of me, can someone show me what kind of code -
could- do this, if it is possible?
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