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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