Good question.  I never thought of that.  There must be some kind of time stamp they can access?

Zoe

 Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu> wrote:

Zoe wrote:

>It has nothing to do with how brain dead your browser is, but how its
>preferences are set. I can set IE to refresh a page every time I come to it,
>to only refresh once in a session, or to refresh whenever content is change.

Which reminds me: how do they know when the content has changed
if they don't download the page every time from the server?
What's the practical difference between this and every time that you come?


-- Toby
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