Hi.
I have a simple vbscript / asp page.
It just gets a few fields from a database, and auto refreshes (meta
tag), every 5 seconds. This constant refreshing causes IE6 to flicker.
Is there a way around this with ASP or another technology?
thx,
Bodi
The technique has been named 'Ajax', and it involves using XML objects in
client-side code to do the round-trips and dynamically rewriting the page as
you go along. it's a fair bit of work to achieve, not something you can just
plug in to an existing site. yet.
However with only five form fields, yeah, that should be OK. You'll find a
lot of tutorials around if you look up 'ajax xml' in a decent search engine.
not really DB-related though ;-)
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> Hi.
>
> I have a simple vbscript / asp page.
>
> It just gets a few fields from a database, and auto refreshes (meta
> tag), every 5 seconds. This constant refreshing causes IE6 to flicker.
> Is there a way around this with ASP or another technology?
>
> thx,
> Bodi
>
thank you jason.
i'm just a beginner web programmer, so i think using xml hacks like
that is a bit beyond me right now. i'll just have to deal with the
flicker. it's actually not that bad; was probably just my buddies
dial-up connection and stuff. besides, my website is content based,
not britney spears based, so the visual aspect isn't that important.
tell me, being a MS guy, what should I use for making my asp based
pages? i've been a vb/access/sql programmer for many years so i know
ms, but when it came to making web stuff (totally new to me), i opted
for macromedia cuz i thought it was the way to go. i'm used to the way
ms does things tho, but i don't think frontpage is robust enough, and
..net i don't konw yet. i just saw an add for visual web stuiod 2005,
but it's only beta, so wut else is there, just plain old interdev?