Originally posted by rhb I think the amount of energy required to press F5 (or click the little refresh button on the browser) doesn't merit an autorefresh.
I'm no techie but I think it would increase bandwidth consumption also.
It could be a preference.
Do you want to autorefresh yes/no? If yes, have a dropdown of 5,15,30,60 minutes. Then when the page is rendered, add a META-REFRESH tag with whatever interval the user wants.
I have like a zillion browser windows open and would be nice to just be able to look over to see if it's my turn to move--without having to hit F5 or the Refresh button.
I'll add my vote for the auto-refresh idea. And add that I'd like that option on the play windows as well. When I'm in a game that's seeing a move every few minutes (often the case in the early evening), it's a minor pain to keep refreshing the screen to see if the other guy has moved, especially when I'm trying to concentrate, using the Analyze window to work through my upcoming strategy.
yeah....i congratulate russ in advance. it is a good idea....less consumtion of bandwidth + no need of pressing the painful F5 and wait for the whole page reloaded even though there may not have a single move for me waiting!