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From: Nigel McFarlane <nrm@tusc.com.au>
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Subject: Re: JavaScript push technology at http://ads.zdnet.com/micro/fluid/
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:34:04 +1000
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Sue Bassuk wrote:
> 
> Came across a site today that seems pretty advanced ... uses JS to
> simulate a Pointcast like service.  How did they do it?
> 
> http://ads.zdnet.com/micro/fluid/
> 
> Sue

	It's just a timer in the netscape client which is polling the web
server.
	Its got one little bit of magic where it overrides your browsers
	cache settings with a <META> tag, so that the page is alays reloaded.

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   When was the last time you were that frustrated _away_ from a
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