On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:15:36 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Pedro M.V. wrote:
And what do you think about a auto-refresh for recent changes, 4 minutes?
The user could mark the box about it in Preferences. So, no problem. Better, a good thing ;)
This doesn't seem like a good idea. It seems to me that it would stress the server for things that one doesn't really need. A person who goes to dinner for an hour with the recent changes page open will have uselessly sought to refresh 15 times.
A good point. And redundant since there are browsers which will refresh a certain URL at a preset interval for you. For other browsers you could even use the likes of Proxomitron to write a meta refresh into the page as it reaches you. Just promise solemnly to close the page if you go to dinner!