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Bug 9770 - There should be a way to exclude the page that calls the manifest from the cache as well, for those who want to use the cache manifest to speed up a site, but not use it as an offline application.
Summary: There should be a way to exclude the page that calls the manifest from the ca...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-05-19 15:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-05-19 15:46:56 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#offline

Comment:
There should be a way to exclude the page that calls the manifest from the
cache as well, for those who want to use the cache manifest to speed up a
site, but not use it as an offline application.

Posted from: 67.246.61.47
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-25 22:40:40 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: That's not what the offline application cache is for. :-)