[Zope] Textarea changes vanishing... my bad, or is IE evil?

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:22:53AM +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 07:45 am, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > Paul Winkler wrote at 2004-8-3 18:09 -0400:
> > >Sorry for borderline-off-topic posting, but I'd like to see if
> > >anyone else in zope-land is observing this behavior...
> > >
> > >Some of my zope users have been complaining recently that
> > >their edits mysteriously vanish. Today we came up with
> > >a consistently reproducible case:
> > >1. go to any page template... let's call it my_template
> > >2. make some changes and submit
> > >3. navigate to somewhere else
> > >4. navigate back to my_template's edit form
> > >   (not using the back button, but i don't know if that matters).
> > >   Now the textarea shows the text as it was
> > >   at step 1, when it should show the text as it was after step 2.
> >
> > I do not see this behaviour with Konqueror...
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> I believe I've seen this behaviour with some recent versions of 
> Mozilla-derived browsers. Damned annoying too. The most recent firefox for 
> Linux doesn't exhibit this behaviour, IIRC.

Interesting. I've only been able to provoke it with IE, 
not with a fresh Zope instance, and  not with any Mozilla-derived browser. 

I got rid of a ton of inappropriate cache manager associations and 
I *think* it's gone now.

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Paul Winkler
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