[OpenLayers-Users] limit cache buildup on client?

[William Kyngesburye]

On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> OL doesn't cache any files, though the number of files it loads can be
> miniized by the 'buffer':0 option on tiled layers.
>
> This is all within the browser realm; outside of the Javascript world.


OK.  Seeing this had me a bit worried about performance, but as long  
as the browser knows what it's doing, I'm OK with it.

Though in a fractionally zoomed map, with untiled layers, each pan and  
zoom would create a unique image request, and the user would be lucky  
to have the exact same image request later, so all those cached images  
would be wasted.  I guess this is a good reason to use defined zoom  
levels, and tiled layers when possible...

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