PHP URL's in IE vs other browsers

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rjwebgraphix
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PHP URL's in IE vs other browsers

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I've done some tests with my site design and have come to the conclusion that firefox and opera give a more desired effect than IE.

When users change from one page to the next with the page being passed on the url (index.php?mc0=home) and then switches to another page (index.php?mc0=services) in Firefox and Opera it doesn't refresh the entire page, only changing the content that needs to change. In IE it refreshes the entire page. Granted it's just redisplaying the existing content/images from the cache, but the desired effect is to just change the contents, not the entire page.

This is noticed more greatly on dialup which I had a chance to test out this weekend while visiting family whose still on dialup. It's not terribly bad, but on thier old system it does take some time to redisplay the stuff that doesn't need to be redisplayed.

Is there a way to get IE to not refresh the entire page and to only change the content like firefox and opera does?

The only way I can think of is having PHP code that when link is clicked it will include a different page without putting it on url, but not sure that will work, and if it does, not sure how search engines will look at those links. Probably won't be able to spider them, and don't want that either.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks,
RJ
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Post by RobertPaul »

It definetly refreshes the entire page. It's likely just a difference in the way they redraw.
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Post by rjwebgraphix »

RobertPaul wrote:It definetly refreshes the entire page. It's likely just a difference in the way they redraw.
Yes, I didn't notice it till I saw it on dialup on an old P-II. IE basically clears the screen to all white first, then redisplays everything. It's not so terrible that I couldn't live with it, just if there was another solution, I'd be interested in hearing about it, so thought I would ask.
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