asmith Posted October 17, 2011 Share #1 Posted October 17, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) A mildly annoying feature of the home page is that it does not seem possible to view enlarged views of two of the images thumb nailed wt the dead of the page. Once you have viewed one images you find that the selection of thumb nails has changed. Is there a way around this? Alwyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 17, 2011 Posted October 17, 2011 Hi asmith, Take a look here A mild annoyance. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Gibbo Posted October 17, 2011 Share #2 Posted October 17, 2011 If you click on 'back' on your browser once you have viewed the image you will get the same set again. If you use the navigation bar of the forum you will get a new set Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 17, 2011 Share #3 Posted October 17, 2011 or just click to open in a new window. Close that one when done. It leaves the original window alone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmith Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share #4 Posted October 17, 2011 But I do exactly as Gibbo suggests and the set has changed. Is it perhaps something to do with the fact that I am using an IPad? Alwyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted October 17, 2011 Share #5 Posted October 17, 2011 Is it perhaps something to do with the fact that I am using an IPad? Alwyn Yes, it seems to be. It appears that the iPad reserves only very little space for the caching of web pages. Hence, it will fetch the same page over and again as often as you return to it. This causes, as you have observed, the thumbnail pictures to be re-mixed every time. As an added nuisance, returning to a page previously visited can take much time and - depending on your access scheme - can cost an unholy amount of money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 17, 2011 Share #6 Posted October 17, 2011 I am pretty sure the iPad puts the original page under the 'next' page. If you close it you should see previous pages in thumbnail view. Click to view one. Pop - correct me on this if I got it wrong. It's been weeks since I had an iPad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted October 17, 2011 Share #7 Posted October 17, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) It's been weeks since I had an iPad. Same here. Nay, months. As far as I recall, the iPad has a minuscule cache. Returning to the last page appeared to work only if the next page occupied relatively little memory. Hence, opening a text-only thread with few and short replies might take you back to the copy of the last page you already have in memory. As soon as the "next" page occupies more memory, i.e. contains some images, the previous page will be silently removed from the cache memory and fetched again when you return to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 18, 2011 Share #8 Posted October 18, 2011 Pop, it' not wise to hold a cache too long because the content can change, so each competently written web page has an expiry date/time in their cookie(s). Those that don't will be in the iPad ready load quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted October 19, 2011 Share #9 Posted October 19, 2011 I've had some extensive experience with several browsers in several OSs besides Safari in the oiPad ("Original iPad"). None of the other browsers dropped their cache contents as quickly as the iPadded Safari, not even the iBooked Safari. Also, the time during which a pages was kept within the iPad's cache varied with the space requirements of the pages loaded after that page. Since I found the re-fetching of pages with its associated timing rather annoying, I spent a couple of hours of my vacation tracking this behaviour. You can readily provoke that behaviour by loading a page showing a subforum (preferably of the photo forums) and then opening individual threads in separate tabs. Then you will quickly see that the iPad does not keep pages until they become stale but drops them to make room for the ones to be loaded. Its cache is too small. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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