Browser reading nonexistent code

[Wilfred Drew]

Real Rodrigue wrote:
> 
> 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 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.
> 

THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM OR A BUG!!!!!!  It is simply the way a cache works.  Please excuse 
the shouting.  Clicking on reload may also show any changes you have made.  It is a very 
good idea to clear the cache on Netscape from time to time anyway.  I set up the 
autoexec.bat file on my PC to delete all the files in the netscape cache directory.  It 
does require me to respond with y for yes but that is okay.

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