Reid Rivenburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Sun, Jul 16, 2006: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:26:11PM +0200, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > > Maybe we should make some of this into a FAQ since you are not the first > > one to point this out. > > Oops, sorry, I guess I didn't dig deeply enough in the archives.... > Thanks for replying.
You couldn't have dug it, since it has mostly been mentioned by people dropping in on the #elinks IRC channel. > > ELinks' caching behaviour is not very conforming. Historically ELinks > > has used a very agressive caching policy, once it even cached redirect by > > default. This doesn't mean that we don't want to fix it at some point > > but there are several things to be aware of such as usability. > > > > Over a year ago, I tried to work on it and it quickly got very annoying > > for many pages to have it constantly reloading, partly because the > > incremental rendering often will cause the current link to change if you > > go back in history etc. > > I guess I don't quite understand the issue. It seems like the graphical > browsers pretty much handle this properly these days. (Maybe there's an > argument about going back to a cached copy of the page vs. a reload.) > Would you say that mimicing firefox's behavior would be a good goal? I > can tell you that the scenario I initially described, where a loaded page > via a clicked link is out of date and I'm not even aware of it, seems to > me like a bad thing. > > In any case, I can appreciate the possible difficulty of implementing this > correctly, so I'm not complaining much! I didn't know before asking > whether it was just me, a bug, a design decision, or what. Sorry for not being clear. What I am saying is that along with fixing the caching policy, we should probably also look into fixing the view state code, so for example when going back to a page which has expired you will end up at the same link that was selected when you left the page. Right now the incremental rendering will 'reset' the current link to be within the links loaded in the first chunk of HTML. If you have other sites to test this on please don't hold them back. [ And yeah I could just try to find some myself but I am not using ELinks enough these days. It mostly ends up being for fast googling or dictionary lookups. :( ] -- Jonas Fonseca _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
