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suggestions: time-stamps & auto-refreshing
By alphabit , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Fri Aug 09, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST

While participating in the occasional rapid-fire discussion on Kuro5hin.org I noticed it is necessary to "refresh" a story's page fairly often. Unfortunately, since I am often multitasking I sometimes loose track of whether I just refreshed a page or not. Time-Stamps I think that listing the date-time of the page's generation right below/above the current system time would be really useful. You could see immediately whether you've recently refreshed the page or not. Limited Auto-Refreshing A related idea would be a method of automatic page refreshing. Although allowing unlimited/unconstrained auto-refreshing would lead to wasted server load for many reason, a limited auto-refreshing mechanism could probably be useful. I suggest adding a button to pages that allows the user to request a set number of auto-refreshes (i.e. 5, 10 or 15 refreshes) spaced a set number of minutes apart (i.e. 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes).

Time-Stamps: Implementation Details

Inserting the time stamp of the page's generation should be easy. A resolution of seconds should probably be decent enough. The current time of a client could be updated via a simple client-side javascript. I've seen these on many sites around the net. Together these two time-stamps would be part of a two row table -- one listed above the other to ease comparison.

Limited Auto-Refreshing: Implementation Details

This could be realized by two drop down lists, one for the refresh count and one for the iterval, and a submit style button called "Request Auto-Refreshes." The refreshes could be triggered at the desired intervals simply by the inclusion of the "REFRESH" meta-tag while the limited number of refreshes could be controled via some server-side counting.

Please judge these two ideas separately -- I only explained them together since they seem related to the same minor "inconvenience". I personally time the first idea is more useful that the second.

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· time-stamps are GOOD; auto-refresh is GOOD 0%

· time-stamps are GOOD; auto-refresh is BAD 100%

· time-stamps are BAD; auto-refresh is GOOD 0%

· time-stamps are BAD; auto-refresh is BAD 0%

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suggestions: time-stamps & auto-refreshing | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 hidden)

Auto-refresh (none / 0) (#1)
by hulver on Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 01:27:24 AM PST

Bad. Don't like it.

How would you tell what comments are new if the page has refresh 3 times while you weren't looking?

-- HuSi - It's what scoop's for.

timestamps.. (none / 0) (#2)
by phill on Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 01:05:34 PM PST

provided you have scoop running on unix (or a variant) make a new box with the empty_box template. for the content put:

my $content=`/path/to/date`;

return $content;

then just put the box anywhere you want it. I like mine at the top of the page, personally.

(check this out on how to format the output of date)

oh, and auto-refresh is bad, especially when you are reading a long comment or post and it reloads on you and puts you back at the top of the screen.

-p

Bad idea by panner, 08/14/2002 12:39:09 PM PST (5.00 / 1)

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