# anchors, Server Push and Refresh

simonm at evolution.com simonm at evolution.com
Wed Feb 26 17:02:29 PST 1997


From: Josep Egea <jes at rednsi.com>

> In order to make the browser scroll to the end of the list (the most
> recent messages), the generated HTML includes a named anchor in its end
(<A
> NAME="end">) and the referring URL ends up with #end ;

Well, you could put the most recent messages at the top...

> a last page with a refresh tag after 5 seconds (<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"

> CONTENT="5">) in the head. [...] the browser should re-request the same
URL
> and this would start it over again. This is what happens in Netscape 2.0
and
> 3.0, but fails in OmniWeb. It certainly tries to refresh but with an empty

> URL (I know by watching at the processes panel) and thus, gets nothing and

> stops.

Try replacing that with <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="5;url=xyz">,
where xyz is the full url of the page you want loaded.

-Simon


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