Re: [TCLUG:6793] javascript question.

[David Guy Brizan <dbrizan@mr.net>]

I try to avoid frames where possible too.

I may be missing something, but is there some reason you don't do it
with shtml or SSI -- does it specifically have to be JavaScript / CGI?

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David Guy Brizan          brizan@freenet.msp.mn.us          612-814-8223


Sandipan Panigrahi wrote:
> 
> Hi, This is not a linux question but since the web page is being hosted
> off a linux server may be I can squeeze it in ?
> 
> I am trying to show the fortune on a web page. Every so often it should
> load a new fortune on to a portion of the webpage.
> 
> One option is to use frames and then have the fortune come in a frame
> by itself which keeps getting reloaded every so often. So the rest
> of the window remains static.
> 
> But I do not want to use frames. I was wondering if there was anyway
> I could get javascript on the html page to send data to a CGI script,
> read the output returned by the CGI script and then just write it to
> the document.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> sandipan
> 
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