In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So I am looking more for a push technology than a pull from teh >> browser (user hit Ctrl-R to refresh is a pull). > >Not necessarily; just write the web page so that it instructs the >browser to do the pull automatically, without refreshing the entire >page. > >This has come to be known as AJAX (though, because this is the sort of >thing JavaScript was designed for, some just call it JavaScript). . . . While refresh and AJAX are the standard answers now, there are other possibilities that we can regard as browser-specific that remain use- ful in rare situations <URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20001015213951/http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-02-2000/swol-02-regex_2.html >.
Good luck with your project. Using the Web to monitor plant operations can be a real winner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list