i am building a web page for a client with an imac. i make changes for him but they do not appear on his screen for days. we can find no “refresh” button like what is on windows.
how do you refresh a mac, particularly an imac running aol?
i am building a web page for a client with an imac. i make changes for him but they do not appear on his screen for days. we can find no “refresh” button like what is on windows.
how do you refresh a mac, particularly an imac running aol?
Unless I’m misunderstanding the question, we’re going to need to know what browser your client uses.
F5 and / or Command+R don’t work? I thought those Browser refresh keys were universal…
as i understand, aol uses a bastardized version of windows as their browser. they take windows and customize it for their own use.
here is what happens. i create a web page for the client. he pulls it up and wants to make a change. i make the change but when he pulls it up again, the change is not there.
on windows ie you simply hit the refresh button in the toolbar. mac and aol apparently do not have this refresh feature unless it is, as the gentleman said, f5.
we just tried a test of the f5 key on the mac and it did not refresh.
It’s not a bastardized version of Windows, but rather a bastardized (and somewhat ancient) version of Internet Explorer that’s bundled with AOL.
I haven’t used the AOL web browser in some time, but there is a refresh button and/or menu item in there.
At any rate, its presence/absence is not a Mac OS thing, it’s an AOL-for-Macintosh thing. You might do your end user a favor and recommend iCab, Opera, IE, or Netscape rather than the built-in AOL browser, which is bottom of the list as far as I’m concerned.
I just checked AOL version 3.0, not exactly the latest and greatest from Steve Case & co but it’s the one that I have…the button you want is labeled “reload” and is placed between the “back” and “forward” buttons.
I have AOL v. 5.0 for Mac. The refresh button is a little icon in the lower left of the toolbar that looks like an arrow curving into a circle. It’s between the stop loading icon (x in a circle) and the home page icon (little house).
appreciate all your comments and suggestions.
yes i mis-spoke, i meant ie and not windows.
I don’t use AOL, but you might also ask your client to check his preferences. If there’s an option to “refresh every time page is loaded,” he can choose that and it should (theoretically) force the browser to go check the server every time he loads up a site.
Kinda weird that Command-R didn’t reload the page, though.
I’m a Mac User (and abuser). I think they may need to hold down option and hit the refresh button (reload in Netscape), that’ll force it to do a total refresh as opposed to a half-assed one. Of course, I know you said they had a customized version of a browser, so maybe that button is completely gone.
A work around would be to have them set their Cache preferences to always update the page as opposed to once per session. Or have them clear their cache and then check your new improved page again.
(I’ve had to go through this myself, don’tcha know.)
Hope that helps.
Absimia.