IE Caching issues

deepman007 · June 3rd, 2008, 11:42 PM

Hi

Why is it that every time I click on an button on the navigation menu, the page reloads even though they shared same background images through out the site and I see images being cached in the IE Temporary Internet Files folder ? could it be the way I implemented?

Thanks

spinal007 · June 4th, 2008, 05:55 AM

that's just the way IE works and is irrelevant to how you build the site

deepman007 · June 4th, 2008, 08:08 PM

But I don't see others people website s header gets reloaded in IE7

spinal007 · June 5th, 2008, 06:31 AM

IE will only 're-load' the images if they aren't the same images used on other pages. what's the URL of your website?

deepman007 · June 5th, 2008, 02:18 PM

I put up two testing html pages and heres http://ahzhou.com/testing . The page blinks when you click on either of home or about button. I checked that IE did cache those two background and mid background image. If they did cache it, then why it still blinks?

spinal007 · June 5th, 2008, 10:26 PM

Works perfectly for me. There's no issue.

Each webpage is unique, the browser doesn't know it's going to be exactly the same until it re-draws it. But, because images are cached, the -re-drawing process happens so quickly "it seems" that the header is fixed as you navigate around the website. It just happens so quickly that we can't notice it.

If the page is blinking for you when you click the links, I think it's because your browser is taking too long to re-draw the page. Either because it's too slow, not enough memory is availble, too many windows open, too many programs running, poor graphics card, etc...

deepman007 · June 9th, 2008, 04:30 PM

Can you check this link on IE http://www.ahzou.com/tests

spinal007 · June 9th, 2008, 09:10 PM

address not found. can you check the link?

deepman007 · June 10th, 2008, 02:45 PM

Sorry, for the wrong link. http://www.ahzhou.com/testing

spinal007 · June 11th, 2008, 12:16 PM

Everything is fine. The browser is working as it should.
Like I said, don't get hung up on this because there's nothing you can do about it.
The page may blink depending on the user's pc specs and browser configuration.

You're reusing the same images on both pages. It's beyond your control now...

spinal007 · June 11th, 2008, 12:18 PM

PS.: I just opened a load of programs and tried it in IE6 when my laptop was very busy doing other stuff. Yes, the background blinks, I can see it.
But there's nothing you can do about it...

deepman007 · June 11th, 2008, 01:36 PM

Oh man, WHY IE sucks soo bad!