On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 3:51:16 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote: > > > With this mechanism, you'd spawn a web worker to do jquery/ajax to check >>> when it was time to replace the content. A couple of the examples >>> calculate Pi, and paste the results into the main page. >>> >> >> This approach is "short polling" (i.e., polling the server with quick >> requests at some interval to check for updates). Note, there is no >> particular reason this must be done with a web worker -- you can simply do >> it from the main web page, as it has been done since long before web >> workers existed. >> > > The idea I was applying was keeping the main page quiet, although Google > News has used refresh interval to update the entire main page. > Web workers give you a thicker curtain to draw over the checkers, than > does a LOAD/jquery/ajax in a timer loop on the main page. >
Understood. Just wanted to make it clear that the short-polling approach does not *require* the added complication of web workers. Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
