[LON-CAPA-users] Submit Button and Mac/Safari

[Mark Lucas]

Thanks Gerd  - that gives me a little to work with. He is on the
standard University wireless network.

He also has firefox and is one of these students who's willing to bounce
back and forth to experiment.

Later,
Mark

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:17 -0400, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Mark Lucas wrote:
> 
> >
> > He claims to be using submit button all the time. Sometimes it takes
> > just fine. Some times it returns really fast and has the SECOND to  
> > last
> > answer he submitted in the box.
> >
> > For example: try 1: 15m  try2: 25m    try3: 35m
> >
> > When submitting try 3, it happens to come back really fast and have  
> > 25m
> > in the answer box with no feedback.
> >
> > He is using a Macbook with Safari.
> >
> > I'm presuming this is a user issue, possibly a browser configuration
> > issue.
> 
> Well, I am using Safari all the time with LON-CAPA (it's my main  
> browser), and I am using LON-CAPA, let's say, a lot ...
> 
> Also, in our student labs we are running Safari. So far, I have not  
> seen this.
> 
> If the page comes back *really* quickly, it's likely from cache,  
> which would also explain seeing an old result.
> 
> Now, that cache could be in the browser (I am not sure if one can  
> sort of hyperconfigure Safari to do more caching than in the default  
> mode, which I am using).
> 
> It could also be in the network, where some network administrator or  
> service provider set up a web cache to minimize outside traffic. I  
> have seen some very weird configuration in high schools. Is this on a  
> standard Ohio-U connection?
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
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