Brion VIBBER wrote:
Erik Zachte wrote:
This is a repost in plain readable ascii.
I wonder how much web bandwidth and server processing power is consumed by diligent wikipedians browing the list of 'recent changes', checking an article and returning to the list by pressing the back button, thus generating a new request to the database, over and over again.
They should use a browser that's not so brain-dead that it can't tell that the forward and back buttons are for zipping through pages that are already open and should not be loaded all over again.
not true.
The recent changes page used to remain the same when you went back to it unless you manually told it to reload, but now if you use the back button to go back to a list page it reloads it from the server even if you don't particularly want it to. If I want to save time I have to right-click and say 'open in new window' all the time and it wastes my time and energy. I would be VERY much in favour of that change being made.
And don't tell me that my browser is braindead. It didn't used to do this. The wikipedia was changed, not netscape.