Re: Caching and JS - Bug?

[Gordon McComb <gmccomb@ix.netcom.com>]

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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