On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > For the next version of server sent events, it might be useful if > authors could specify the retry interval for connections. > > e.g. In cases where it is known that content is only updated at > specified intervals (e.g. once per minute), having the browser retry the > connection every 5 seconds and fire the event with the same content may > be excessive. > > This could possibly be done using the :command syntax. > > e.g. > > Event: click > :retry 60000 > > The browser would then retry the connection in 60,000 milliseconds (1 > minute).
I've added this to the spec as a comment. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
