Re: [tlug] Browser blues

[Josh Glover <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon (Sun 2004-06-06 01:07:53AM +0900):

> Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> >The nice thing that Mozilla does is caches a dynamic page the way it
> >was displayed, so you can use the Back button to revisit it and view
> >it without having to resubmit form data. Firefox seems to want you to
> >resubmit the form data, though I am not convinced that it is really
> >doing that due to load times that I have witnessed.
>
> I've found with pages I've saved with FireFox that I can open them days, 
> weeks, months later exactly as I saved them (and on different computers 
> after transferring files and their equivalently named folders), but a 
> lot of stuff still tries to "call home" as it were, although - if opened 
> off-line - a 20 second wait or so suffices and it opens properly from 
> the saved data.

Caching pages and manually saving them are two different things. *That*
is my point, and Steve's question.

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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