> >Yes, because that is what you are supposed to do. > >> but each browser seems to have a different way of >> achieving this. Is there a reliable >> formula? > >Exiting all instances of the browser and restarting should be sufficient. >
I have a clear counter example. Mozilla on Win XP does NOT clear the Java cache upon restarting the browser. I loaded 10.00.07 of the Jmolapplet.jar into this browser yesterday, and got inexplicable behaviour. so I updated the server version to 10.00.0, restarted the Mozilla browser, and it still used 10.0.07. Despite four restarts of the browser, I cannot force it to update the Jmol it is using (I have checked the server is issuing an updated version with eg Safari, which has updated its Jmol). I have even re-installed Mozilla (1.7) but it still persists in using a (cached) version of Jmol from somewhere. Curiously, on this machine, even Firefox and IE6 now use 10.0.07. Going to another machine, and the browsers load 10.00.0 correctly, so this cache must be machine specific. I suspect a browser cannot clear this cache, it must be some sort of system operation that must do it? I would suggest the applet caching behaviour may well be controlled by local policies which the user may be unaware of, and which may lead to odd behaviour if eg the Server Applet is updated at some stage, but the user continues to see an "old" version of the applet on their version of the pages due to its using the cached version. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax); [EMAIL PROTECTED] (iChat) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
