[Chameleon] browser auto-refresh?

Mon Sep 27 15:21:37 EDT 2004

yes ... I actually don't know why it re-submits the whole page ... if 
you figure it out, I'd love to know

Paul

Godwin, Elizabeth wrote:
> Hm... that doesn't explain to me while other apps that post don't
> exhibit the same behaviour.  But I'll continue googling.  No luck so
> far.
> 
> When I say refresh... I don't mean just what's loaded in the browser...
> it's re-requesting from the server.  Which is something the others
> aren't doing.  Speed might have affected me noticing with other
> applications, but I would have noticed the POST error.  
> 
> Liz
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba at magma.ca] 
> Sent: September 27, 2004 2:51 PM
> To: Godwin, Elizabeth
> Cc: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: Re: [Chameleon] browser auto-refresh?
> 
> 
> Liz,
> 
> this is the way mozilla works.  You can work around it by attaching to 
> the onresize event of the body:
> 
> <body onresize="return false;">
> 
> or something like that ... a quick google should get you close ... as I 
> am on dialup right now, a 'quick' google is impossible so I'll leave it 
> to you ;)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> Godwin, Elizabeth wrote:
> 
>>Hi there,
>> 
>>I've noticed an odd phenomenon while working with Chameleon.  It seems
>>that in all mozilla variants, the application will refresh itself when
> 
> 
>>you change the window in some way.  Now..  my first thought was the
> 
> code 
> 
>>added to the samples template I've based my app on that included code 
>>telling Netscape browsers to reload when there was a resize.  EXCEPT 
>>that I've removed this code.  
>> 
>>I went poking and found instances of this code in a couple js files.
>> 
>>My question is, is it necessary for all mozilla browsers to do this
>>reloading?  I thought it was only for version 4 browsers. 
>> 
>>It's not usually an issue, but I came across the behaviour while 
>>testing
>>in Firefox, having multiple versions of the app open.  If I resize
> 
> after 
> 
>>I've submitted a request, I get POST-ing error messages and such. 
>> 
>>Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>>Liz Godwin
>>
>>
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