I just had my thought, a day too late. Using javascript (driven by the timer object) you could have the browser continuously refreshing GIF pictures provided by a perl program. Technically not HTML, but reading between the lines that's probably what he wanted.

I reckon reaping the guys node was a little over the top... we've tolerated questions on apache and IIS before.

Update: There was also a HTML extension I recall reading about that allowed the client to go and get data from databases and the like and present it on the webpage without the intervention of the html server. I wish I could remember what it was called. That would do the trick here too.

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