Comments on: Frustrating User Experiences: Techmeme Meta Refresh

By: bshenanigan

bshenanigan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:16:58 +0000

Won’t this mean that there are now two requests, rather than one? The HEAD request and the page request?

dion — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:55:05 +0000

Gabe,

Thank you for providing a great service that sits in my Tab 4 :)

Gabe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:11:33 +0000

Good point Dion! Thanks! I could use some grapes now.

henrah — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:17:35 +0000

Another (also ugly) approach to doing a simple ping:

function ifConnected(callback) { var ping = new Image(); ping.onload = callback; ping.src = '/blank.gif?' + new Date; };

…assuming blank.gif exists and is an actual image.