CGTalk - Background refresh

erilaz

12-21-2004, 10:35 PM

I was wondering if was possible to have cgtalk do it's own background refresh when the page is idle? Sort of like how gmail refreshes the inbox every 5 minutes or so.
Personally I want it because if access to the site is idle for more than 5 minutes here at work, it blocks me again (damn marshalling software!) and I have to go through a labourious amount of clicks to get the site back up.

In a community sense however, I just think it would be useful so that if something is updated on the site you can see it intermitttently while you work, rather than having to press F5.

I can already see some of the issues of implementing this (refresh during posting and server load strain), but I thought perhaps there might be a way to do it.

What do you think?

mummey

12-22-2004, 12:52 AM

Hmm... with all the images, that could use up alot of bandwidth. Have you tried working with the RSS feeds to set something up?

erilaz

12-22-2004, 04:22 AM

Hmm... with all the images, that could use up alot of bandwidth. Have you tried working with the RSS feeds to set something up?
I thought perhaps only a refresh on the frontpage, or in the invidual forum pages, rather than threads themselves. Do you think that would work?

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