alt Hacker News> the little-known meta http-equiv="Refresh" HTML tag
Oh, don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner laughing ruefully as my bones crumble to dust: back when I started, if you wanted a page to refresh on its own, this was the only way.
Beautiful work! A splendid example of formal minimalism at its best.
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skrebbel • last Saturday at 4:59 PM
I can’t wait till they hear about framesets
dlazaro • last Saturday at 2:15 PM
Thank you! And umm, not to make you feel ancient, but I think I wasn't even alive yet when `setTimeout(() => location.reload(), ...)` first became widely available.
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Of course, the "http-equiv" means that this tag is supposed to stand in for an equivalent HTTP header, so you could accomplish the same by sending a "Refresh: 60" header :)