Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Dempsey
You can just use the latest Posts refresh thing, but use the new 'Hide Forums' bit at the bottom so it only sows the forum you want.  Problem solved.

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Not really, because that means having to change all of the options over and over again to view the forum that you want... It doesn't really solve any problems... It just makes you unable to see other things that you may want to see... Anyway, I prefer the auto refresh in sub-forums feature... Seems that it would be useful...

Hmm well because I didnt think  wdz would add it , I created a greasemonkey script to do that it even adds the "Refresh is On" link.

you need atleast greasemonkey 0.3(get it here) to run it because it uses data storeage functions (GM_getValue and GM_setValue)

Right click and hit install HERE

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Originally posted by traxor
i doubt it would be too much work, as you may be able to steal code from other website .

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Any n00b can add a meta refresh tag

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Originally posted by Mr. Gary
try XMLHttpRequest

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I've heard of that because of GMail, but I've never messed with it. Opera (my favorite browser) only recented added support for it. Anyway, there's no XML involved...

blah XMLhttprequest is way too much truble just for a simple refresh
and then what are you going to try to do? just replace the document
with the recived data like

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document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].parentNode.innerHTML = recdata;

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(i forgot the documentobject thing so eh thats a easy way to get to the
source of the page anyway because document.innerHTML is dodgy....)

which will cause the entire page to "flash" so eh I say the meta tag is
there for the reson to refresh so use it when you need to refresh ,
unless you want to refresh using javascript then I recomend using a
setTimeout to reload the page.


sorry but I just hate it when people try to suggest using XMLhttprequest for everything.

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Originally posted by Mr. Gary
php, asp, perl, cgi

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wtf, why are you comparing a markup language (XML) with programming languages?

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Originally posted by WDZ

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Originally posted by Mr. Gary
php, asp, perl, cgi

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wtf, why are you comparing a markup language (XML) with programming languages?

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and ones that are all compiled(kinda) and ran by the time you even start to recive the data for the xmlhttprequest =/

* -dt- dosnt even so why he mentioned them , thinks maby he ment those sort of pages you can recive or something =/

I just dont think its of much use
Its like the point to show t&t in the threads u took part in tag that i was suggesting ... it can be done manually but that way it takes more time .... this saves time but meh ... dz aint coding em

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Originally posted by traxor

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Originally posted by çr@nK
that would be sick,
you try to click a link and suddenly woops page refresh and another thread is in that place...

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doesn't have that problem when using it in latest posts does it ...

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yes, you'll have the same problem. There is absolutely no difference...

And because of this I will never use or turn on such a feature. Besides, is it that hard to press "reload" button or <F5> in your browser?

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And what's the deal with all this XML, ASP, PHP, XMLHttpRequest, etc nonsense? To refresh a page every x seconds all you have to add is 1 meta-tag or 1 line of javascript, as WDZ already said :/

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Originally posted by John Anderton
it can be done manually but that way it takes more time .... this saves time...

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I realy can't understand how people can say and think that such things will save time (just like that other thread where someone suggested an auto-popup of your contactlist when hoovering over the messenger icon)... They really don't!

With auto-refresh things, auto-popups, hoovering over something, etc. you need to WAIT till the script/program/action kicks in. This takes far more time then simply pressing 1 button, or clicking on a mouse button!!!!

So instead of being that stupidly lazy to press 1 single button, learn to use the basic default and already built in options/buttons/etc of Windows and other programs. I bet most of all the people who suggest such "time-saving" things don't even know the full scope and possebilities of their mouse and keyboard...

So don't use the "it saves time" argument, that's complete nonsense...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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I realy can't understand how people can say and think that such things will save time (just like that other thread where someone suggested an auto-popup of your contactlist when hoovering over the messenger icon)... They really don't!

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Yeah, it is kinda useless. The only times I've actually found it useful were when...
A) I was viewing another page with the Latest Posts visible in the background, and it refreshed automatically, letting me know there were new posts.
B) I was quickly switching through my windows and came across the Latest Posts, which was already fresh and up-to-date without me having to click anything.

Im not 100% sure, but i think that Opera does it automatically for you. If you have a window in the background, it will refresh it every so often.

If it does: <3 Opera
If it doesn't: <3 Opera