Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 08/09/07 19:08

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.

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> 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.

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Jonathan
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