Re: Reading Forums

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:58 -0500, Adam Hooper wrote:
> > As a side note, if last *result* pages where cached, it's be
> > completely possible to reshow a last place visited (= undo) when
> > starting the browser again. Especially since we aren't redoing any
> > requests or anything, just redisplaying the same HTML.
> 
> To reliably implement the behavior you suggest, we would need to cache
> every HTML page visited, along with all images. (Or to provide "undo"
> support of 10, we'd need to cache 10 HTML pages.) Besides the general
> icky feeling that comes from such browser behavior (pages can be
> several megs big), it would be very difficult to explain to the user
> when he's visiting a cached page and when he's visiting an up-to-date
> page. Not to mention the confusion between "back," "undo," "forward,"
> and "redo" -- that alone is a conclusive reason to throw the idea away
> for Epiphany proper. 

Um, doesn't Epiphany *already* cache every HTML page visited along with
all images?

If we don't then what in the hell does
Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Temporary files do?

Lee