Website Refresh issues

[M1DUL]

Yesterday I have started, to build a Weather website using Cumulus I have noticed that the weather information is not being refreshed automatically.

I have to hit the refresh button. I have noticed that the two wind gauges on the bottom of the gauges tab are being updated automatically.

But not the others Please can you have a look at the website at
http://pooleweather.t35.com/weather/index.htm and see what is wrong?

Here is the ftplog and the realtimeftplog for any errors that you can see for me?

Many Thanks.

[Jonsey]

Hi Michael

There is nothing wrong with your page set-up, found the below info on the net

To make the page reload or refresh itself, we have to use the following code inside the head tag


<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" >


The attribute http-equiv="refresh" calls for refresh of the page.

The attribute content="5" sets the time for refresh.

The time after which the page has to reload is set using the content attribute.
Say if you want the page to refresh after 10 seconds interval, set content value to 10.

We would recommend the time of refresh [reloading interval] be above 5 seconds. This is because you have to consider the page loading time.

Dave

[steve]

Think hard before doing this. Auto-refreshing pages are annoying and very bad for accessibility. W3C guidelines say to avoid if at all possible, and if you decide you must, then don't use "HTTP-EQUIV=refresh", and make sure that what do you allows the user to turn it off.

Steve

[Jonsey]

Think hard before doing this. Auto-refreshing pages are annoying and very bad for accessibility. W3C guidelines say to avoid if at all possible, and if you decide you must, then don't use "HTTP-EQUIV=refresh", and make sure that what do you allows the user to turn it off.

Steve

How else can you do it, I did see something about Java but don't know what you need to do it?

Dave

[M1DUL]

Thank you Dave & Steve, for the information, at the moment I might just leave it as it is for the time being.

[steve]

I think techniques like the Ajax solutions are preferable, but it's presumably possible using javascript. I'm afraid I'm not an expert in either!

Steve

[ritchie]

You can do it with javascript, but you will need to wrap divs around all of the components that you want to refresh and you will have to read the data from the realtime.txt file - hey that looks like AJAX

Take a look at my posts elsewhere in this forum and see if that method is suitable for you, it is still in early realease stages, and you need to have some experience of web development. But it isn't rocket science.

[M1DUL]

You can do it with javascript, but you will need to wrap divs around all of the components that you want to refresh and you will have to read the data from the realtime.txt file - hey that looks like AJAX

Take a look at my posts elsewhere in this forum and see if that method is suitable for you, it is still in early realease stages, and you need to have some experience of web development. But it isn't rocket science.

Hi Ritchie, Thank you for the Information I will have a look at your post elsewhere in this forum. & decide what to do.