Is there a way to tell the browser to keep following the end of the page so that the user doesn't have to keep scrolling down to see the newest content?

Others have commented on this question directly, but I thought perhaps you might like to hear a different approach. Instead of printing the "newest content" at the bottom, you could print it at the top. Then you could set up your page to refresh automatically every X seconds, with HTTP-Refresh. This way, though the newest content might not be as new as it would be if it were continually updated, at least it's convenient to view. Happily, the details are nicely explained in merlyn's column, Watching long processes through CGI, so I don't have to. :-)

In reply to Re: Move to the end of an unbuffered CGI web page? by revdiablo
in thread Move to the end of an unbuffered CGI web page? by C_T

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