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Re: lynx-dev proposal for LYK_SCRIPT and patch
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev proposal for LYK_SCRIPT and patch |
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Tue, 6 Jul 1999 06:30:43 -0400 (EDT) |
990705 Klaus Weide guessed:
> the reason for SOURCE_CACHE was to provide a backup for those situations
> where Lynx had to reload the document because some setting changed,
> not for any other cases of reloading.
> Right? At least that seems to be what it's doing.
not really: it was introduced during your 347 day leave (smile).
the other part of the motivation was for occasions
when users want to check the source using \ ,
which used to cause regular gripes & calls for cacheing the source.
> If that is the case, then it *is* wasteful to always make a copy
> for all http: documents. I need the cache copy only for a few of them.
it's not wasteful for users who want to investigate possibly bad HTML.
> My main point was availability of a cache file may not be a constant,
> so it would be good not to depend on it for an unrelated task/feature.
correct.
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