Heh, nah, that's not it. It's because the background is set to the URL "?", which is a relative URL to the same page. You almost got me there, my friend.
- Andy Bakun
from Android
It is the "?", but I'm still not sure *why* the browser(s) request that... If you set it to the equally valid URI "?dog=1", it no longer requests it. Something about "?" seems to be magic?
- Kyle Laserdog
It could be something related to the order in which things are downloaded as the page is parsed. What's the smallest possible URI fragment longer than just "?" that triggers the second download? Does "?x" do it -- no need for that to even look like a form variable assignment.
- Andy Bakun
from Android
Actually, I just retried my "?dog=1" test, and it is double counting again, so guess I was wrong about that. I'm still unclear exactly what the browser is hoping to retrieve from the uri though. A text file with a hex value? A style sheet?
- Kyle Laserdog
What is weird, is setting BACKGROUND="?value=1" *doesn't* do anything... I'm still a little lost why "?" is so magical? kyle.
- Kyle Laserdog
from email
The "background" attribute of the "body" tag specifies an image to use as the background. The background color is given with the "bgcolor" attribute.
- Andy Bakun
I was thinking it may have to do with caching. For some reason, "?" is treated as different from the current document, but "?value=1" is not. I was asking about the length because I was thinking there may be some kind of race condition in the parsing vs parallel downloading, and a longer URL delays is just long enough to know that it already has the current document. What happens if you add more stuff to the document in the "head" element, to make the document longer?
- Andy Bakun
This doesn't seem to be much of a "PHP Puzzle", but rather a browser issue. BTW, it happens in Chromium on Linux also. And Opera 10.
- Andy Bakun
Ahh, I was confusing background was bgcolor, makes sense.
- Kyle Laserdog
I suggest, "Consultation prize for losing the Olympics" or perhaps, the Nobel "He's Not Bush!" Prize
- Mike Kloster
I didn't say it was weird he won (that's been talked about to death), I was saying it was weird that it has been so quickly branded as essentially a negative thing for Obama.
- Kyle Laserdog
Maybe that is because there are already such high expectations, adding a preemptive Nobel Prize just contributes to that inevitable sense of let down.
- Mike Kloster
Bought an audio book off of Audible. After an hour I realized they don't support my mp3 player. Hurray for $18 worth of useless bytes!
You can burn it to CD and then rip it to mp3. Its kind of annoying, but it gets you there.
- Mike Kloster
Yeah, writing 5 GB of data to removable media, then ripping that 5 GB of data to arrive back at an 100MB mp3 isn't sane, or worth my time. I found the exact same audio book mp3 on a torrent site, and it downloaded faster than from audible.
- Kyle Laserdog
@make_tips Traveling with your favorite screwdriver? Make sure it is <=7 inches and pull it out of your bag since they will be measuring it.