Setting Safari to auto-reload?

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Setting Safari to auto-reload?

Hi. I have a small business with a computer set up for cutomers to go on my company's web site. The site has weather information that is constantly updating, and I was wondering if there was a way to set Safari to auto-reload a page every hour, or maybe every few minutes, so the page would always display the most current information... so I don't have to keep clicking on the refresh button myself constantly. I couldn't find anything in the preferences menus, and I was wondering if this was possible... any info would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Posted on Oct 4, 2005 12:38 PM

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Answer 1

Ryan M.

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Oct 4, 2005 6:48 PM in response to Colby Macri

If you have access to the site's HTML and actually code the website, you can have the page auto-reload every x number of seconds by putting the following HTML into the <head> section of the page. You will need to change the line var limit="0:30" to the time as you wish the page to reload.

<script>

</script>

If you don't have access to the code, try this Applescript that will reload the current webpage every 2 minutes (that can be changed) for the frontmost page in Safari.

Hope this helps!
-Ryan

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Answer 2

lkrupp

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Oct 4, 2005 4:20 PM in response to Colby Macri

I'm not familiar with website design but I do know that the website itself can be made to re-load itself. Several news sites (The Drudge Report for example) re-load themselves every couple of minutes. Maybe a html guru will come along and tell you how. I don't think Safari can be made to do this by itself.

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iBod

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Oct 5, 2005 11:58 AM in response to Ryan M.

Hi Ryan,

I'm the first to admit I'm no expert when it comes to websites, but would a meta refresh tag be simpler and also work with browsers who have turned off JavaScript?

I.e.

<code><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600"></code>

http://webdesign.about.com/cs/metatags/a/aa080300a.htm

I may well be wrong though! Just thought I'd throw it out there. 🙂

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Ryan M.

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Oct 5, 2005 12:13 PM in response to iBod

I'm the first to admit I'm no expert when it comes to websites, but would a meta refresh tag be simpler and also work with browsers who have turned off JavaScript?

It sure would, iBod 🙂

I just couldn't find an example of it last night when I posted and couldn't remember it off of the top of my head! Thanks!

-Ryan

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Colby Macri Author

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Oct 5, 2005 11:57 AM in response to Ryan M.

Thanks a lot!

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Answer 6

iBod

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Oct 5, 2005 12:19 PM in response to Ryan M.

Cool, thanks for the confirmation - good to know I wasn't barking up the wrong tree!

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