Browser reading nonexistent code
Real Rodrigue
Rodrigue.Real at uqam.ca
Mon Jun 3 17:22:54 EDT 1996
Claudia Rebaza wrote:
>
> Has anyone else had a problem with their browser insisting on reading a
> coding error that has long since been corrected? Last week I typed an
> "a" instead of an "i" in </i> and the browser (Netscape) continues to
> show the </a> in the document source even though this was corrected four
> days ago. A colleague here has run into the same problem before but we
> don't know what causes it or how it can be corrected. This error shows
> up in more than one machine.
>
> I've also sometimes had a problem where sections of the document source
> blink, and the affected text does not show up on the browser. The only
> way I've been able to fix this in the past is by erasing the affected
> codes and text and retyping them (sometimes more than once). Since this
> blinking may extend to a whole paragraph of source, I'd prefer not to
> keep doing that :>
>
> Does anyone know why this may be happening?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Claudia Rebaza
> Cook Library Reference Department
> University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
> crebaza at ocean.st.usm.edu & http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~crebaza/index.html
I noticed this problem with NetScape 3.0b4. I managed to view my
corrected HTML page by emptying the cache: even if I closed and reopened
NetScape, the problem was still there. Emptying the cache solved it.
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