Subject: AOL browser caching? From: JohnAtl@aol.com Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 13:07:32 -0400

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Everyone here knows the main news, but I would like some comment on the last
sentence quoted below.

>>>>>>>>
By Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle 
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News 
"America Online is making a preview version of its World Wide Web 
browser available, becoming the last of the "Big Three" information services 
to provide access to the popular Internet feature. 
  The new software - now available only to computer owners with Microsoft 
Windows on their machines - won't be officially unveiled until later this
week, America Online spokeswoman Judy Tashbook said. 
. . .
The browser can be slow, but Tashbook said Web pages selected by America 
Online subscribers are stored in the system's computers for 24 hours. Once
one subscriber has looked at a page, it will load faster for anyone else who
looks at it within a day."
<<<<<<<<<

Will this caching mean that pages with more-than-once-daily updates (stocks,
etc.) will not be accurate? Or will the caching just save time for the
graphics?

Any technically knowledgeable opinions would be appreciated.

Cheers,

John Roberts
Atlantic Monthly
johnatl@aol.com

ps - I have been using the Mac beta browser (no Windows access currently).
Word from AOL folks is that the Mac version does not have the same
functionality as the Windows version--quite believable, IMHO.

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