Idea: offline when we see the error message "...reloading this page will request it again" there should be a confirmation button with which we can confirm that indeed we understand what is going on and want to try again. Without a conscious confirmation, this message should stay put, offering instead of just "reloading", several buttons: 1. request it again. 2. use cached copy 3. use cached copy and request it again. etc.
Why: we may be in a hurry and unable to treat each item in lasttime with the attention it deserves. We don't want merely glancing at an item for a 1/4 second to cause a unrecoverable state change. "reloading this page will request it again" sounds too much like "by opening the envelope you agree to ..." etc. etc. "I was in a hurry to show Flanders the proposal. I clicked on several pages in lasttime before finding the right one. I recall they were some sort of error message, but they are all gone now... having been turned into requests for pages that are in fact no longer needed. Sure wish they hadn't assumed I made up my mind." Anyway this 'ConfirmRerequests' could be a new wwwoffle option, on by default. A> Are you sure that it wasn't the second time that you selected the link A> that you got the new request recorded message? come to think of it, I do several more automated things than the average wwwoffle user, perhaps one of my tasks causes reading of the page... Indeed, "reloading this page will request it again" assumes there never are any batch jobs spidering lasttime, etc.
