[OpenLayers-Users] IE7 IMAGE_RELOAD_ATTEMPTS

[Paul Spencer]

On 14-Nov-07, at 3:17 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:52:00AM -0800, Ben Brehmer wrote:
>> Thanks Roald,
>>
>> I just updated to trunk and still see broken tiles in IE7.
>>
>> Looking at my server logs I see a particular broken tile url coming  
>> in
>> once. Does IMAGE_RELOAD_ATTEMPTS cause OpenLayers to re-request a
>> particular tile, or does it simply re-try to set the src on the  
>> image?
>
> There's not really any way for OpenLayers to do anything *other* than
> this. Recently (~yesterday) I saw a report on another mailing list
> (Boston Perlmonks, for the interested) that IE7 does not re-request  
> from
> server in some cases where a 404/error was returned for some unknown
> reason. This may mean that the IMAGE_RELOAD_REQUESTS is doing  
> everything
> it can, but doesn't actually reload the tile: adding an 'alert'  
> message
> in the callback (or turning on debugging and using console.log) might
> let yo usee if that's the case, or if IE is just being stupid and not
> actually requesting things from the server again.
>

Do you think it is possible that setting the source to some other  
value (blank gif) and then back to the original source might trigger a  
reload?

Paul