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Presumably you'll eventually write something rather than lurking for hours and then it'll refresh.
by wybiral 9y ago
Presumably you'll eventually write something rather than lurking for hours and then it'll refresh.
- roywiggins 9y agoIn extremis a <meta refresh> could be used.
- reificator 9y agoBut then if you refresh every ten minutes or so, and I just happen to be finally responding after that long, I'm going to lose what I'm typing.
- myfonj 9y agoNot necessarily: browsers are pretty good at keeping form elements state across refreshes nowadays, especially Firefox. Cursor position perhaps, but not text.
- reificator 9y agoPerhaps, but certainly there will be frustration there. Especially WRT cursor position changing.
- lhorie 9y agoI mean, sure, it works just fine if people refrain from doing certain arbitrary things (such as the scripted spamming that's happening as I write this), but that's why the grandparent comment said it was a hack and not a trick that one might want to attempt in production.
- wybiral 9y agoThe spam had nothing to do with not using Javascript. I could easily have added a CAPTCHA or required accounts.