Originally posted by LoudMusic
I don't think that would be good for him. His web provider would get a little bit unhappy with the hoards of extra bandwith he was using.
See (:
If you reload a browser window, it remembers where you were, even if the page changes. Neat eh? At least in IE 5.5 it does.
Actually, they wouldn't, which is even worse. There is no way for standard http to generate a 'constant connection'. Each time the client end needs a file, it has to send all the request information. This includes information about the computer, browser, and any cookie the client end may have. Then the server has to parse it, decide how/what to reply, and execute the process. Of course this all happens in the blink of an eye, but when you're talking about blinking your eye some sixty times everytime you load a page (building the dynamic html files, sending the html and images ... each is a process), then saying there are between 20 and 200 people looking at the site at the same time, then something like 15 to 100 people on the boards, each refreshing their thread every 5 seconds ... man that's a lot of eye blinks. I wouldn't want to put anybody through that kind of torture (:
~LoudMusic
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