Re: Fixing pollForUpdate() (multiple tab problem)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:52 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> I've experimented a bit with the iframe approach, and it is able to
> read data from a different port. So, I think this describes a possible
> workaround to the pollForChanges() problems. It is somewhat ugly and
> complicated, but I think it can result in a system that works in both
> IE and FireFox without messing with any settings. I also think that
> the messiness of the solution can be hidden pretty well, such that the
> rest of the code is essentially unaffected. 

I commited the first version of this. I couldn't use iframes, because
loading an iframe made the throbber throbb, so i used another trick to
load from the other port. I create a dynamic <script> object and set its
src to point to the url. The url when loaded is some javascript that
triggers the update.

I'm sure there will be issues with this, as there is a lot of new code
involved. I'll try to fix up the problems as we see them.

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