[Zope-dev] Using Zope in a client-server system

Martijn Pieters mj@digicool.com
Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:06:12 +0100


If you are on a 100T-base network, just use polling in a hidden frame, like
someone suggested.

Keep it simple, it will be fast, and you can use Zope. It'll save you a lot
of work.

With either a Javascript timeout called method or a HTTP Refresh header you
reload the contents of a hidden frame, that will only contain Javascript.
The javascript updates all information in the visible frames, and only that
information that nees updateing.

Depending on how current the information eeds to be, you can set polling
intervals as low as 15 seconds on such a local, fast network. No human
certainly needs anything faster, you probably can get away with intervals of
5 minutes.

Martijn Pieters
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