[Javascript] For the birds

tedd tedd at sperling.com
Wed Dec 27 20:33:33 CST 2006


Andrew:

I don't have control over the IE6 users browser settings, but your 
post gave me an idea.

Thanks for the idea.

tedd

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>Hi Tedd,
>
>I got bit by a similar bug earlier this year.  What's the cache 
>setting in Internet Explorer?  IE has a bug such that if you set the 
>cache setting to "Every visit to the page," IE will try to reload 
>every image file for every image element that you add to a web page 
>via JavaScript.  If you change the cache settings to something else, 
>you'll probably find that the problem no longer occurs.
>
>For more information on this weird IE behaviour, refer to the 
>following website:
>
>http://ahinea.com/en/tech/ie-dhtml-image-caching.html
>
>Hope that helps,
>Andrew
>
>
>On 27-Dec-06, at 9:19 AM, tedd wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>>
>>Paul:
>>
>>What I am finding is that IE 6 continues to load and reload the two 
>>images I use to make the animation. For whatever reason, IE 6 does 
>>not cache the two images.
>>
>>Anyone have an idea or suggestion as to how to make IE 6 play well 
>>with caching images?
>>
>>Again, the page is:  http://sperling.com/index1.php  (all source 
>>code is embedded)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>tedd
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