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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.
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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.
I agree ... and disagree.
Setting no-cache headers and expiry times are fine. And obviously they have those set here at FlyerTalk. Otherwise, when you came back to the the page, you wouldn't lose all those nice little lamps telling you where one had un-read threads.
However, with the increase in dynamic pages and poorly written dynamic pages at that, I cannot conceive of a single day of using a locally cached set of pages. Now, that isn't to say I don't agree with what you suggest should be, but since it isn't what is out there, I think it is incumbent on someone providing advice to give information that is usable to someone who isn't a pro at web systems (like you obviously are).