Refresh /tracker page when going back to it
On Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit SP1 with IE10, when on the Recent posts
, opening a new or changed article, then using the browser's back button, the page does not refresh, ist still shows the article just read as being new or changed.
Same with Google Chome on my new Android 4.2.2 tablet
Not an issue with IE9 (another Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit SP1 machine), nor with IE8 or IE7 on an old XP machine.
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Not sure whether this is something the web site server can fix?
This is the default behavior of any modern browsers. They cache the page so can get to it more quickly. In most of the cases, it's what the user wants... except when the page is changing rapidly (but in this case, the page should be "ajaxified" anyway...)
the tracker pages should not use the Cache then. They can at least sent hints to the browser not to cache, can't they?
Is that what you mean by "ajaxified"?
(and yes, it is a minor issue. Annoying me quite a bit though :-))
The page could be reloaded every X seconds/minutes then? When you press the back button you will get the old page but X seconds later, you will get a refresh.
(Ajaxify, think about the way comments are working on github, they appear on the page even if you don't reload it)
an automating refresh every x minutes or so would be nice (configurable in the personal Setting, maybe?), much better than to manually have to use the reload butten every now and then, doing it every few seconds though is too often, esp. if nothing changed, that would just increase trafic without any benefit.
But it should be done on every 'back', automagically and immediatelly. As then something did change, in form of the article read prior is no longer new.
Personally I would wish the back button to give me the page exactly as I had originally viewed it - there are definitely times when you wish to compare the page as it originally entered your browser cache.
In general I'd agree, but not for that particular page, "Recent posts"
Two solutions in place for /tracker:
* when you click on an unread topic, the 'new' marker will hide itself: ideal for those who use to open topics in a new browser tab like myself
* when you return in the browser, it will serve you a fresh page: for Jojo's case
excelent, exactly what I Need. And it works too ;-)
At least the latter case, I can't get the former to work?
And an automatic refresh every 5 minutes would be the icing on top!
Reg. click in an unread topic updating the page: can hat be made to work too when clicking in the 'New' link?
Don't push it Jojo ;)