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Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
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lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:42:58 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMstopspammers.ORG
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Ed Boxer Jones <edboxer@si.rr.com> wrote:
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?

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.

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  Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
 
(...) 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! (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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