Alternative to http-equiv="refresh"

[xaur]

I disabled automatic reloading and Firefox and it keeps warning me everytime I visit voting.decred.org.

Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading.

I think <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300" > is to blame, as opposed to more common javascript-based UI refresh. For long time I have not seen this warning during my normal surfing.

If I'm the only one with this problem please just close this issue.

[alexlyp]

I'm open to alternatives, although with our current architecture (no js blob running via angular etc) I'm not sure there is another way to refresh the page otherwise.

[xaur]

A small javascript snippet would do I think. Set a timer, make request, update couple elements. The page is rather simple right now, although I'm not aware if bigger things are planned for it.

Thinking about timers, the numbers on the page can only change when new block is mined, is that correct?

If yes, only one update in 5 minutes is necessary.

[dajohi]

websocket ntfn that a new block has been received and to refresh?