8:51 p.m.
This might or might not be related to the issues Vincent Sanders talks
about in the current thread "Netsurf cache".
I recently updated the home page of my own website. Then tested
viewing it with Netsurf. It kept serving up the old page, despite my
clicking Netsurf's Reload button -- with Select (to reload page), then
again with Adjust (to "reload page and all the objects it contains").
Is this non-update to be expected? Am I misunderstanding the use of
Reload?
(Hmm, just noticed from a search of Netsurf menu that the shortcut for
"Navigate > Reload page" is Ctrl-F5 -- I didn't try that unfamiliar
keystroke, but presume it does same as above. Is Ctrl-R used at all?)
I finally deleted the history file; then my revised page displayed.
Shouldn't reload trump history?
Using Netsurf #3433 at the moment.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
2:29 a.m.
Jim Nagel <netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
[Reloading a page didn't load a new version]
(Hmm, just noticed from a search of Netsurf menu that the shortcut
for
"Navigate > Reload page" is Ctrl-F5 -- I didn't try that unfamiliar
keystroke, but presume it does same as above.
FWIW, Ctril-F5 - which may be unfamiliar, but is standard on all the
browsers I use (including NetSurf) - is the keystroke I use to reload pages
when working on websites because it *does* fetch a new version of the page,
rather than just reload it from a cache.
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Vince M Hudd
Soft Rock Software
4:35 a.m.
Vince M Hudd wrote on 13 Apr:
Ctrl-F5 - which may be unfamiliar, but is standard on all the
browsers
I use (including NetSurf) - is the keystroke I use to reload pages
when working on websites because it *does* fetch a new version of the
page, rather than just reload it from a cache.
Interactive help for the item on the Netsurf buttonbar does say
"Reload". Does it do the same thing as Ctrl-F5 or not?
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
6:51 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 08:35:01PM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote:
Vince M Hudd wrote on 13 Apr:
> Ctrl-F5 - which may be unfamiliar, but is standard on all the browsers
> I use (including NetSurf) - is the keystroke I use to reload pages
> when working on websites because it *does* fetch a new version of the
> page, rather than just reload it from a cache.
Interactive help for the item on the Netsurf buttonbar does say
"Reload". Does it do the same thing as Ctrl-F5 or not?
Vince's email is pretty clear.
B.
8:33 p.m.
New subject: Netsurf refresh -- frames
Jim Nagel wrote on 13 Apr:
I recently updated the home page of my own website. Then tested
viewing it with Netsurf. It kept serving up the old page, despite my
clicking Netsurf's Reload button -- with Select (to reload page), then
again with Adjust (to "reload page and all the objects it contains").
Did some further updates on the Archive site today, and again came up
against this fails-to-reload problem. Neither ^F5 or ^R or the
buttonbar route do the trick: old page always reappears.
Then an Aha moment. My change was to the contents of a FRAME within
the page.
Is there any way to cause a frame to reload? Do the powers of ^F5 etc
need to be extended?
Still using Netsurf #3433 here, on Armini 5.22 and ArmX6 5.23 -- I
promise to fetch newest version this weekend.
(As for frames, I see their disadvantages. The Archive site was
maintained for 15 years by a volunteer member, who designed it when
frames were in fashion. Sad to say, he died at Christmas.)
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
2:51 a.m.
New subject: Netsurf refresh -- frames
Jim Nagel <netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
[^F5 apparently doesn't work with frames]
Is there any way to cause a frame to reload? Do the powers of ^F5
etc
need to be extended?
Before suggesting a possible workaround, did you click on the individual
frame before hitting ^F5 ? I don't know if that'll make a difference, but it
seems plausible that you might need to tell NetSurf precisely what you want
reloaded.
Failing that, if it definitely doesn't work with frames, a possible
workaround might be to load the page into a new window (adjust click on the
link that loads the page into the frame) then, if the rendered page is the
old one, ^F5 on that.
If you need to see it in the context of the frameset, after doing that close
the new page then ^F5 on the whole again. Hopefully, it'll now reload the
whole frameset - but with the new page, since that's the last version it
used.
As with clicking on the individual frame first, I don't know if this'll work
- since I don't use frames, so I've never hit on the problem - but it seems
logical.
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Vince M Hudd
Soft Rock Software
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