Hello: I have been conducting some experiments involving the loading of some very Arachne-friendly web pages consisting of many high quality and somewhat large JPG images accompanied by paragraphs of descriptive text. As the cache rapidly fills up, the image rendering becomes a problem. Some of the images will start being displayed incompletely, some fragmented, and some with narrow horizontal lines running through the images. Also many red boxes will start appearing where the JPG images are supposed to be. When that starts happening I just clear out the cache and reload the problem page. Then the images will all be rendered perfectly! Many list members have been blaming the appearance of red boxes where JPG images are supposed to be on such things as JavaScript, and other unfriendly non-standards and proprietary web gizmos. Other things they like to blame the red boxes on are long filenames as the image sources. The results of my experience with the web pages I will indicate show that none of the above serves as an explanation. These web pages have no JavaScript nor any other unfriendly stuff. Some of the image source filenames are long filenames. The problem appears to be completely due to having too much junk in the cache. Clearing the cache and then reloading the page always solves the problem for me. I have repeated these experiments several times on a particular group of web pages linked to this page: http://personal.inet.fi/koti/sherlock/WW/index.html About halfway down the page you will see the following hyperlinks, named as follows: Laennen aseet 1 Laennen aseet 2 Laennen aseet 3 Laennen aseet 4 Laennen aseet 5 Laennen aseet 6 Laennen aseet 7 Laennen aseet 8 Laennen aseet 9 Laennen aseet 10 Clicking on any one of these hyperlinks will load a page full of large images and paragraphs of explanatory text on the subject of some especially fine museum quality antique firearms. All of these pages are very Arachne-friendly except that some will take a long time to load. Click on number 7. This page will take a long time to load and it will fill up your cache with large high quality color JPG images. After you visit two or three more pages indicated by the above links you will start getting red boxes and fragmented images. Then shell to DOS (ALT E), delete all the files in your cache and in your headers, type "exit", and then reload the problem page. All will be rendered perfectly. The same or similar results are reproducible every time. I suppose the same thing would happen while viewing any other perfectly Arachne-friendly pages if they have the effect of filling up your cache with large JPG images. I do not understand this behavior of Arachne. Why should it make any difference to her as to how much junk is in your cache as long as there remains plenty of extra disk space to load more junk? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
