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Subject:	Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:31:10 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes: > Ed \"Boxer\" Jones <edboxer@aol.com> wrote: > > <Ctrl> reload works for me. > > Right, but telling your viewers to do that every time isn't a very viable > option. Why not? A simple phrase: Press <Ctrl> and click on "Reload". Why is that not viable? Why is that less viable than any of lots of other keystroke mouse combinations? No offense, but give your users some credit!

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		Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
(...) Why should they have to do anything? Computers are supposed to make things easier. Telling people that they need to press some seemingly-arcane (to a new user) key combo isn't good user-interace design. (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
(...) Right, but telling your viewers to do that every time isn't a very viable option. (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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