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Subject:    Re: [OT] Re: JSP under /WEB-INF folder PROTOCOL PAGES (ProtocolPages)
From:       "Frank W. Zammetti" <fzlists () omnytex ! com>
Date:       2005-01-31 4:22:28
Message-ID: 41FDB284.6090900 () omnytex ! com
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Dakota Jack wrote:
> The good is that the web site designer knows when a change has been
> made and the assumption is that you are going to see what the web site
> designer has to offer.  No?
> Jack

I concur with the assumption, but I don't see it making any 
difference... Remember that what we affectionately refer to as "the web" 
these days is really a lot more than what it was originally.  One of the 
things that was originally intended is that the client is in complete 
control.  If the user wants to request a resource from a server, and 
they tell their browser via a setting that "no, I WANT you to go ask 
that server EVERY SINGLE TIME for the resources, NEVER use what you 
might have in the local cache", then they should be allowed to do that, 
and whatever the web site creator wants you to do is irrelevant.  Same 
idea when the user can override fonts and colors and the like with their 
own local settings.

Nowadays though, us web app/site designers think WE know how best a 
client should view our site, and we actually go out of our way to make 
it so... how many times have you visited a site where the font is too 
small and the usual font size adjustments don't make any difference?  So 
you have to go in to setting and uncheck that "User Font Sizes Specified 
By Site" option.  Annoying, and not what was originally intended.

This is of course all only relevant to the extent that it supports my 
point, that anything you do on the server side to try and control 
caching is either (a) useless because the end user can override it 
anyway or (b) not in keeping with the "spirit" of the web, at least, not 
as originally intended.

Now I'm off on a bit of a tangent though :)

-- 
Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com


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