Anyone have ideas for solving the “n items remaining” problem on Internet Explorer?

Question

In my ASP.Net app, which is javascript and jQuery heavy, but also uses master pages and .Net Ajax pieces, I am consistently seeing on the status bar of IE 6 (and occasionally IE

Answer 1

With regards to caching images, I had to use an HTTP handler to get the images to cache correctly. Specifically, there was a picture of an arrow in a CSS menu that would cause the exact behavior you're dealing with since it was used multiple times in each menu.

Here is the code for the handler: http://www.groovybits.com/SrcViewer.aspx?inspect=~/PersistantImage.ashx

You use it by adding an AppSetting in web.config:

<add key="UniqueImageName" value="~/Images/image_name.gif"/>

And reference the source of each image using the handler instead of the path to the image itself:

~/Handlers/PersistantImage.ashx?key=UniqueImageName