[Eskymo]

I'm having a weird thing happen with IE7 - it's a nightmare to test stuff on at the moment as the page I'm testing loads fine once, then if I make a change to the CSS and re-upload that and then hit refresh in IE7 - the page takes hours to load or just hangs and does nothing.

thought it might be the phishing filter as that does slow things down, so I switched that off - no change.

Anyone got any ideas?

[pat24]

Just a thought but have you tried Holding the Control key, and press F5 to bypass the cache.

Pat

[Eskymo]

that works a treat - thanks!

[pat24]

Eskymo, on Aug 2 2008, 18:48, said:

that works a treat - thanks!

Glad it helped.

Pat

[Eskymo]

don't know what the issue is with the refresh button...mind you the entire browser does my head in - not sure why anyone would want to use it...

[pat24]

Eskymo, on Aug 2 2008, 19:12, said:

don't know what the issue is with the refresh button...mind you the entire browser does my head in - not sure why anyone would want to use it...

Unfortunately its shipped with almost every pc sold, I believe Dell have started shipping with linux and firefox, hopefully it will catch on but dont hold your breath.

Pat

[Mihai Georgescu]

Also to prevent client side caching on other people's IE browsers you can try this trick. The only thing that I'd like to add to the article is that if you have php on your server you can automate the variable by adding the timestamp to the file:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/screen.css?<?=time()?>"/>

The output will then be something like:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/screen.css?1217698245" />