Originally posted by Water Polo Ref:
The third option (Never) means that you load from your internal cache on your computer at your fingertips and never ask for the new pages on-line. This last option should not be used when doing much stuff on-line at sites like FT.
I disagree. That is a valid option for the client browser and, indeed, the only sensible option if you want things to run at any decent speed.
The whole idea of URLs is that the data they refer to should not change frequently. If they do, the web server should either direct the client browser to a different URL, or set no-cache headers, or set the expiry time to force the page to expire from the cache immediately.
The only fly-in-the-ointment is that some firewalls/proxy servers will have a network cache which doesn't reload new pages all the time.
No, the main fly-in-the-ointment is idiots who don't know how to write web sites properly and expect users to change their browser settings to compensate. Faulty proxy servers don't help, though.
However, let me point out that I find this board works fine for me, except that it "forgets" changes you've made if you go to edit a message a second time, and I have Netscape set to never check the online copy.
There are other travel boards which do get this very wrong, but this one seems to work adequately.
[This message has been edited by Kremmen (edited 03-14-2001).]