Massimo, does this solve the problem I'm having? I have a background queue serving an app. The ajax script should refresh the DIV to show the status of the item of interest whilst the item is on the queue. Once the item is processed, it's deleted from the queue and the output is to be displayed in the div. At this point, polling for that DIV should stop and no longer consume any CPU cycles.
I'm using jQuery everyTime. Problem is, once the timer is set upon page refresh, it never stops, even if I overwrite the script. I believe the right thing is to use jQuery's oneTime, but it only fires one time, even if I try to overwrite the script. So I've debugged it and the script only gets loaded once. Will thie ".load" watchamacallit do the trick?