Hello-
I have a website that uses a custom built webserver to serve the pages.
(Please don't ask me why my boss had his own web server written). I am
displaying a log of information that is an unknown number of rows. This is
currently displayed in a table.
The table is generated by some code that we had to write (thank you custom
webserver) so that the webserver will parse HTML files and fill in the tags
we created with some data before returning that to the browser, the HTML
looks a lot like ASP or JSP using the <% %> tags to denote something to be
filled in.
Now all that works fine and dandy, but in order for this log of information
to show the latest stuff, the page needs to refresh and tell the server to
go get the list of log info and fill in the HTML with the info then return
it to the browser. All this happens pretty quick, but like any site, the
page blinks while it refreshes.
Now my boss wants that page to update without refreshing (the blink annoys
him apparently). At first I said that it couldn't be done, but he said that
he didn't believe me. Thus I am forced to ask you guys.
I know you can update fields like that using JavaScript. (I made a font tag
with an id and a JavaScript function resets the nodeValue. This changes the
text without refreshing the screen). But my problem now is that I need to
POST to the server to get the information without the page refreshing
(through JavaScript?). Is this even possible? I planned on getting the
data back and document.write() it all to the page.
Any ideas?
Post note: He saw his router's webpage dynamically update in this fashion.