[IPython-dev] Camera widget

[Jason Grout]

On 2/26/14 7:32 PM, Sylvain Corlay wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> I have experienced this kind of problems with widgets not being rendered
> because of caching issues of Chrome. Even after deleting the cache, some
> javascript files are still not updated to the last version.
> The fix for me is to
>   -open the developer tools (Crtl + Shift + J)
>   -right-click on the reload button of the page
>   -choose _"Empty Cache and Hard Reload_".
> Another solution which only works when the developer tools are kept open
> is to check "_Disable cache (while DevTools is open)_" in the developer
> tools options.

A couple of related questions for an interested person to investigate:

* Is this really a problem of stale javascript files not being updated? 
(it sounds like it)
* If so, are we taking advantage of things like tornado's etag support 
to validate a browser's cache?

Thanks,

Jason