Once an HTML document has a manifest (cache.manifest), how can you remove it?

Question

It seems that once you have a manifest entry, a la:

Then that page (the master entry in the cache) wil

Answer 1

For development purposes (constant changes), what we have done is:

1. Set a -cache manifest file- under your SERVER-SIDE language, for example, we use PHP, so our development cache is called "cache.manifest.php" and it's pointed this same way in the html tag like this:

2. Put some -time dependent- string (or something else that suites you) somewhere in your manifest as a comment (#---), so that the file is different every once in a while (browsers seem to compare manifest's content, not date), for example this string changes the manifest every minute, this way all files would be re-cached if the visit is in a different minute as the last time.

We've just tested this procedure using Chrome, hope it works in others, but if not your comments and advices would be very well appreciated.