when you shut down safari, you quit... refreshing when you come back is a feature, not a bug.
Now, if you've installed an apache server (I have) on your iPhone... refreshes will be that much quicker! On Sep 6, 2007, at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It refreshes as a white page if the web server is not available. > That's what I'd like to avoid. I don't want the browser attempting to > refresh the page unless the user explicitly requests it. > > You don't have to be on the iPhone straight for a day. The scenario: > load a page, shut off the phone and shut down the web server. If you > turn the iPhone back on and go to the browser, the page is still there > - and obviously, no attempt was made to contact the web server. Now if > you try to look at the page a day or so later with the web server > still down, it may or may not still be there. The browser may try to > refresh it automatically, resulting in the blank page. > > This issue has been obliquely referenced (i.e., without resolution) in > other posts. For example, > http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev/browse_thread/thread/ > 677f779772b53a3b/08b6e4f67485edcd? > lnk=gst&q=reload&rnum=10&hl=en#08b6e4f67485edcd > > > On Sep 6, 11:24 am, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So your'e saying your page refreshes after a day or so? Who is going >> to be on a page on an iphone straight for a day? I'm interested in >> why It refreshes as a white page instead of showing the content >> again. >> >> -=Randy >> >> On Sep 6, 2007, at 11:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> >>> Typically a day or so - which is why I thought it might have been >>> "expires" related. This doesn't happen with just my apps - but also >>> with other sites. For instance, Facebook (iPhone version), comcast's >>> email (iPhone version), the game "Avalanche", etc. >> >>> Nothing timing out in my code that I know of - no setTimeout() >>> calls, >>> if that's what you mean. No event handlers except for a body tag >>> unload handler which is just a stub right now. >> >>> On Sep 6, 10:13 am, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> How long before the page refreshes? I've never had that happen. >>>> Are you >>>> sure you don't have something timing out in your code? >>>> -=Randy >> >>>> On 9/6/07 10:02 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <hiroshi- >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >> >>>>> Anybody know if there's a way to force the browser to reload a >>>>> page >>>>> ONLY when requested to do so by the user? Right now, the browser >>>>> automatically attempts to reload the page (blanking it) if the >>>>> user >>>>> has been away from it for awhile. I'd like to have the page remain >>>>> intact even if no internet connection is available. >> >>>>> I've tried a few header and meta tag settings (pragma, cache- >>>>> control, >>>>> and expires, for example), with no luck. >> >>>>> Any ideas? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
