- From: Dan Kohn <dan@teledesic.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 02:28:20 -0500 (EST)
- To: "'fahrner@pobox.com'" <fahrner@pobox.com>, "Fork (E-mail)" <fork@kragen.dnaco.net>, "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
IE 5.0 & 5.5 do not cache most stylesheets, resulting in a significantly degraded user experience. In IE, go to <http://www.dankohn.com>, click on books, click back, and click on books again. You will notice the latency as IE refetches the stylesheet. Now, choose File: Work Offline and hit back. Note that the page is displayed without the stylesheet because it's not cached. <http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/> shows the same behavior, but oddly <http://www.xmlhack.com> and <http://www.xml.com> do not. It appears that IE only caches stylesheets if they are referenced with a relative URL. Unfortunately, I've become addicted to Todd Fahrner's Steely W3C Core Style Sheet (which is gorgeous), but requires the browser sniffing functionality from the W3. This would be fine if it were once per site visit, but it winds up really slowing down someone who is trying to traverse my site by requiring a new fetch for every page. Any suggestions or workarounds? - dan -- Daniel Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com> tel:+1-425-519-7968 fax:+1-425-602-6223 http://www.dankohn.com
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