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Apparently the WebTV browser has a problem with images refreshing that's very
similar to the one that Netscape has. The solutions are different though.
The people who designed the WebTV browser seem to have had cams in mind.
They made their own refresh parameter. All it needs is RELOAD="60" (or whatever your refresh rate
is) added to the image tag. Then the image will refresh every 60 seconds.
The only trouble is that no other browsers recognize it.
WebTV doesn't support Java either, so if you use a Java refresh applet,
your image won't even appear! And you know that nifty navigation bar with
the Java hover buttons that you made with Front Page®? Same with it, so you might want to add some
text links or something so WebTV users can see something other than your
first page.
Here are some options:
- Use the JavaScript refresh.
WebTV does support JavaScript - very extensively, as a matter of fact.
This seems to work just fine with it.
- Make a separate page for WebTV users, using the "RELOAD"
parameter and with the meta refresh tag removed.
- Use a combination of a meta refresh and the WebTV "RELOAD"
parameter, but make the "RELOAD" time maybe, 10 seconds less than
the meta refresh time. That way WebTV users get a new image just before the
page reloads, so the image that it pulls from the cache is the current one.
(did that make sense to anyone other than me?) Anybody feel like
experimenting?
Here's a site with lots of good WebTV information and a really handy viewer
program: http://developer.webtv.net.
Don't try it if you don't want to see how bad your page looks at a 600x400
screen resolution, with the frames removed and your font specification
changed to Arial.
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