Why does Navigator 4 takes soooooo long to load a page with menus?
While developing DHTML Menu Builder we have discovered the most weird and obscure bugs in Navigator 4. One of them is that for some reason Navigator appears to have a problem loading cached documents… or verifying if a document can be cached… or… who knows. The thing is that when Navigator 4 tries to re-load a page containing menus created by DMB (everything works fine if the page is loaded for the first time) it enters into an infinite loop until: a) Navigator looses focus b) Something happens and it pops up the page After numerous testing and hundreds of hours of research we found that the problems is with the way Navigator handles cached pages, although no changes to the caching options appeared to have any effect. So… we came up with a simple, yet very effective, solution: avoid Navigator from catching the document containing the menus! Unfortunately, it wasn’t easy. Using the common meta tag to avoid catching didn’t work. So… the only way to avoid Navigator from catching
