- From: David Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 01:46:20 -0700 (PDT)
- To: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Lou Montulli wrote:
> I recently changed netscape to interpret "Pragma: no-cache" and not
> cache the object. This is slightly different than a "Expires" header
> because the object will not even be cached for history navigation.
I believe this is the wrong design. The user *MUST* be able to always
flip the page backward and see the same material just viewed. THis
is a critical user interface usability issue. Within the same session/
instance of UAgent execution. I believe it would be/is wrong to
silently refresh a document during history navigation when the history
cache has overflowed. I (and many users I know) expect the history
to be a record of what I've seen. I would have not objection to a
browser which checked currency and via a non-modal message advised that
the history copy wasn't current ("Current copy not current, RELOAD for
the latest copy" for example).
Dave Morris
Received on Wednesday, 16 August 1995 01:48:58 UTC