Glen, Thanks again.
Yes, we've looked at the auto-refresh that you suggested. IN fact, I would just set the CONTENT to "5", and it seems to automatically refresh the page whatever the URL is. What I think we really want is a server push model, but that's another story. I'm currently looking at www.pushlets.com. (If anyone has any better suggestions for portal server push, I'd be happy to hear about those too!) You say that you don't know how you would refresh one portlet and not others without using IFrames; I would generalise this to IFrames or Frames (keeping in mind my requirement for drag-resize). I don't know whether there are any other portal engines that support the drag-resize and selective refresh - I'm wondering whether other readers may have seen one. Or thought of one. John. -----Original Message----- From: Glen Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 10:29 To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: Re: A portal using frames instead of tables I understand what you want, and with more thought I believe you are right that a refresh button on the portlet titlebar would be worthless. I think the refresh button inside the IFrame is one of the options. You may want to explore some of options of setting auto-refresh in the header of a customized IFrame portlet with <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="5;URL=http://www./your_host.com/your_site/your_page.html";>. In Jetspeed, I do not know how you would refresh one portlet and not others on the same page, without using IFrames. I thought an applet portlet might work, but discovered the applet will reset during a refresh. What portal engine have you seen that supports drag-resize and selective refresh? Glen Yesberg, John wrote: > Glen, > > Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I've looked at IFrames. From what I can > see, an IFrame has the same functionality as a Frame, but they have different > geometrical characteristics on the screen. > > If I was using the IFramePortlet as currently provided, then the portlet title > bar buttons (config, minimise, maximise, restore) would be outside the IFrame. > In fact, if one pushes any of those buttons, the whole page (including all of > the other portlets) is reloaded. I'm trying to allow just the one portlet to > be reloaded/refreshed, without disturbing the other portlets. That means that > I would need to have my refresh button *inside* the IFrame - but that's ok. > > I think IFrames would be a good solution except for my drag-resize requirement. > It would allow one to continue to use the current set of controllers, which use > tables as the layout mechanism, rather than the rather clumsy frames mechanism. > It would still be necessary for the browser to make separate get requests for > each of the portlets to go in the IFrames, which would need some modification > to jetspeed, I think. > > John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
