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auto refershing a webpage

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phreaqe

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i am wondering if there is a way to make a webpage auto refresh after a certain amout of time. i work at a marina. we want to have a radar displayed on a tv in our office. right now we go to the weather.com website and use the animated weather radar. but after about 15 minutes it pops up saying that the map is outdated. is there any program that can auto refresh the page. the computer is running windows 98. it is a p3 500 with 32 megs of ram.

i had a java program that we wrote that would do it but this computer could not handle it. i had the newest java on it but it jsut crashed IE.

edited for spelling
 
will those programs run on that computer. the memory is a big bottleneck for thie comptuter.

how do you set it up to do this
 
Try this.... when looking at the page go to File -> Save as. Save the webpage somewhere.

Now, right click the *.html file for the page you just saved, go to "Open With" and pick Notepad. There may be a folder created with the images, but ignore that. Now, under the <head> tag paste this line:

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="10;url=pagename.html">

"pagename" above being whatever the filename of the .html file is. Be sure to change that. Also, you can change how frequently refresh occurs by making the number above bigger or smaller. It's at 10 seconds there.

Now, save the text file and open it up. Should refresh...
 
yes, and I'd suggest firefox for your usage, you can give every tab a different timeout, memory usage should be high, but it will work. (might startup very slowly tho)
 
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