Posted by John on 06/15/05 18:24

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:30:06 +0100, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
wrote:

>John wrote:

>> On a small web site I am looking after
>> (http://www.myjourney.ca/weather.shtml) I have a small "weather panel"
>> (<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/71368.html">
>> <img
>> src="LONG LINK")

>> Is there a script or command I can insert so that this link will be
>> refreshed every one minute or so?
>>

>
>Refreshing just part of the page will involve frames or JavaScript (AJAX,
>for example, is about refreshing parts of the page without a complete
>reload). Considering the fact that both are a bloat and quite unnecessary,
>I suggest you use metatags to refresh the entire page.

Roy: After the information given to me here, I'm considering to just leave
things as they are. After all, how important is it really what I was trying to
do?
>
>Wunderground used to embed the text in the image so I could snatch it but
>they now (starting last month) display text on top of a background that
>represents the current conditions. Have you found a workaround?
>
I'm afraid my knowledge of all this is so limited I don't really understand what
you are asking.
I have not sseen any difference in the way this is shown on my site.

Thanks for your input!

John <><

A wise monkey is a monkey who doesn't monkey
with an other monkey's monkey.

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