mobile safari won't stop caching

Question

I'm writing an offline app for mobile safari. I have just gotten to the point where it will create the app icon on the home screen and function offline. Now I want to update the html in my app, but it refuses to refresh. I've tryed the refresh button, the "clear cache" settings option, I have even taken down the server but safari still shows the page.

help!

Answer 1

You need to modify the cache manifest. You can just add a comment line to the manifest. When you do, the browser will redownload the whole app.

More info about this topic can be found here: http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html#debugging Your situation kind of applies to the title :)

Answer 2

Thanks so much! I was banging my head against that on for a while!