Updating IE5
Posted by Ian Bartlett on October 06, 2001 7:56 AM
I have a spreadsheet that posts charts to a server every 2 hours in .html format. This works fine. I have a second remote pc on the server that does nothing but run Internet Explorer 5 to display the html file's charts on a screen.
How do I rig the pc running IE5 to refresh automatically, say, every 10 minutes, such that updates to the html file are displayed without manual intervention?
Many thanks,
Ian
Posted by Juan Pablo on October 08, 2001 5:45 AM
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="10; URL=http://www.htmlhelp.com/">
tells the browser to load http://www.htmlhelp.com/ 10 seconds after the current document has finished loading. Not all browsers support this, so authors should provide an alternate means of moving to the new page where necessary. The Refresh header is sometimes used for "splash screens" or when a page has moved, but the technique is not very effective since users may not even be looking at the window that is to be refreshed and since it messes up the user's history on many browsers. Some search engines penalize pages that use a Refresh of a few seconds or less.
Juan Pablo
