Ajax caching on pages...

[Mel]

I have a page with a <DIV> that gets updated every 10 seconds. The
problem is that unless the browser is configured to get new pages at
all times, it displays the page from cache.

Is there a way to prevent this from happenning ?

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Good Man said the following on 3/19/2007 5:03 PM:

Hate a browser because it doesn't act the way you want it to instead of
learning how to code it. Intuitive.

It's pretty easy to hate a browser that continually shifts its
"standards", I've seen many websites that render fine in IE6 that don't
render properly in IE7.

The function of a browser is write once display anywhere... so this is
clearly a failure on MS's part not in the programmers.

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Ivan Marsh said the following on 3/19/2007 6:11 PM:

I guess you have never tried dynamically creating a table in IE/FF then?
IE gets it right, FF gets it dead wrong. The list is endless both ways.


No, the function of a browser is to display the resource given to it.


The same can also be said about FF, Mozilla, Opera, Safari and any other
browser you want to name. Doesn't mean you hate the browser, it means
you learn how to deal with it.

So you think it's perfectly okay for three versions of the same browser
from the same company to display the same information three different ways?

You're very forgiving.

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Ivan Marsh said the following on 3/19/2007 6:26 PM:

Just curious, but did you ask the same thing when NS7 came out with
regards to three different versions displaying the same information
three different ways? Or, is it just MS that makes it "different"?

I do remember one occasion where minor changes in the way Netscape
rendered caused issue with some web sites... in Netscape 6.0

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Ivan Marsh said the following on 3/20/2007 10:45 AM:

Did you "Hate Netscape" or write it off as a cost of progress?

I can forgive a single incident, maybe even two... but I did stop using
Netscape shortly after that.

It's a bit surprising to find there's someone in the world defending
incompetence, lack of adherence to standards and chaos in general. You
must be a truly interesting person.

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Ivan Marsh said the following on 3/20/2007 2:35 PM:

Then I would guess that you don't use IE?


I wasn't defending MS, I was questioning the reasoning behind "I hate
IE" as it seems that MS is just the target of it. Nothing more, nothing
less. If the accusations go across the board then it is fine. But when
people say "I hate IE" simply to seem "cool" (think M$ as well) it
seems, well, odd.

There's an alleged group of people in the world that believe it makes them
seem cool to say "I hate IE"?

I can't decide which is more ridiculous... that being true or anyone
caring.