| William Tasso 2006-04-29, 6:56 am |
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Helen Martin <hrmartin@nospam.uniserve.com> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
> hi there.. I'm wondering how long it takes for a browser to reset the
> visited links.. is there a way to force that.. if I want to test to see
> how my page looks to a new visitor??
yes - that is achievable in many (if not all) popular browsers - mention
which you are using and I'm sure you'll get the help you need.
> I'm also wondering about page refreshes.. is that always controlled by
> your brower according to pre-set preferences.. I read about a meta tag
> for refresh but the writer said there were problems with it which I
> didn't totally understand.. something about going back to the previous
> page.. I don't understand why that would be.. ?
The subject is caching, for which this article by Mark Nottingham is
regarded by many as the definitive source of useful information:
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/
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