On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 03:20 Canada/Eastern, Mark Dancer wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Robert Nicholson <robert at elastica.com> asked: > >> Why does safari need to contact the web site if it's contents are >> already in the cache? > > Three reasons I know of (there may be more): That's fine, but those reasons should apply equally to all browsers. Explorer doesn't have to go on-line to review cached pages; why does Safari? f