Refresh Websites Automatically
Many websites update their content periodically using JavaScript, and in the past Twitter widgets used this mechanism, too. The website you used in the preceding section uses a different approach. It updates its content using the <meta> tag in the head section of the HTML page.
| | <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120"></meta> |
This element reloads the page every 120 seconds. It’s an easy solution, but it works only when you’re allowed to change the page and have access to the server hosting it. So, the best solution would be if you could tell your browser to reload the current page at a certain interval. Most browsers have such a function, and usually it’s called kiosk mode. Midori has a kiosk mode, ...
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