- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Grahame Grieve wrote:
> >That is not a bug in IE5, that is the exact behavior required by the
> >standard. Back is supposed to show the old page you have seen before,
> >not fetch a new copy. See for example section 13.13 of rfc2616.
>
> but this is obtuse to a user. why should a user perceive
> any difference between a page they got from going back
> and a page they got from going forward? In highly dynamic
> web applications this caching of back business is a big problem with
> the http standard
HTML was designed to serve up more or less static pages. One souce of
information per URL. Anything dynamic that has been added on is a cheap
hack. You are very lucky that anything dynamic works at all. If you
want to serve dynamic data, I suggest using Java applet in your page.
Then you can be as dynamic as you want.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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