Re: Caching and JS - Bug?

[Andy Augustine <aug@ix.netcom.com>]

Gordon-

I second your thoughts.  I've been rewriting scripts daily and can count the
number of times this *caching* has happened to me on one hand (twice -- but
they were with beta Navigators).  Clicking in the location box and hitting
[ENTER] seems to *always* load the resaved code.  I can be assured of this
because many of the rewrites I've done have been with document.write()
calls, and the new page is redrawn accordingly every time.  

Like I said before, if you've got some code that gets 'stuck' in the cache,
could you post it for the rest of us to see?

Andy Augustine

At 03:58 PM 3/2/96 -0800, Gordon McComb wrote:
>There might be something more to it than it just being a JavaScript problem.
>I've been doing nothing but JavaScript coding for the last two months, with
>lots of revisions and reloads, and I think I've hit this bug maybe 3-4 times
>total.  It's always fixed by leaving Netscape and restarting -- a five
>second job in Windows 95.  (Often a complete reload of the page -- reopening
>it or retyping it in the location box -- also does the trick.)
>
>Are you sure you don't have something funky like a weird cache (especially
>with extra long delayed writes)?  I'm astonished that if the problem is this
>big it should have generated a massive amount of debate on the several
>JavaScript-related newsgroups.  It's come up maybe once or twice, with not a
>lot of people chiming in.
>
>-- Gordon
>
>
>At 11:50 AM 3/1/96 -0800, you wrote:
>>Ed Kloskowski wrote:
>>> 
>>> I also do an INTRAnet site, with the same worrting about what software
>>> everyone is using.  However, the caching problem is real.  So real in
>>> fact i was forced to remove one of my JAVAscripts from production
>>> because the old code kept "popping" up (its a huge site with many test
>>> machines). Old javascript code NEEDS to be flushed from the browser by
>>> deleting the netscape cache.
>>> 
>>
>>Unfortunatly deleting the caches doesn't even do the job 100% of 
>>the time. I have modified code and deleted both caches four 
>>times and sometimes I still get the first or second version of 
>>the code being executed even though view source shows the 
>>current code. 
>>
>>I personally consider this a giant bug in JS since it serious 
>>impedes the development effort and greatly reduces my over 
>>confidence in Netscape, Navigator, and JS.
>
>
>

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