Top of PageWhen I use the animation function, my browser keeps downloading the images over and over. What can I do to correct it?
Browser caching options on your computer control how and when your browser displays or downloads images from our web server. The animations on the Environment Canada (EC) “weatheroffice” web site are shown as a series of individual images, like a slide show. If you set your browser’s cache options to download images on every visit, then each run through the slide show will trigger a new transfer of every image in the series. With Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, look in Tools/Internet Options/ General /Settings. Under Check for newer versions of stored pages a selection of automatically should solve the problem. This change would also substantially accelerate your web activities by reducing the amount of data downloaded to your computer from the web sites you visit. Users of the mozilla-firefox browser will not encounter this problem, since the faulty setting has been removed as this browser automatically defaults to the proper setting.
