Well, I’m out in California this week visiting my brother and helping my parents with the house. Not having a whole lot to do while we got grounded in Minneapolis, I worked on cleaning up mongrel esi.
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“Here’s the problem: Internet Explorer forgets to look into its own cache when inserting HTML via JavaScript DOM manipulation (read: if you use img tags or any tags with CSS background images, Internet Explorer will always try to redownload these images). Read the detailed account on this.
Microsoft says it’s designed that way. Well, Sure.
“There’s an other bug in Intenet Explorer (unrelated?) that causes caching of images in CSS only happen with relative paths, so never use background-image:url(/images/blah.png) but do a background-image:url(../images/blah.png), relative to the path your CSS file is in.”
It’s an older article, but hopefully has a little of something for everyone. –> Speaking loudly against IE is only in our interest as consumers and users of the web! 
Update: More details about IE caching bug can be found here: http://www.ahinea.com/en/tech/ie-dhtml-image-caching.html
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