[Javascript] Background script

[flavio at economisa.com.br (Flávio Gomes)]

/> Is it as simple as just setting a timer function that triggers my 
function?
>  Or is it any drawbacks with doing that? Is other scripts available 
during this time?

/Never played with AJAX, but I believe that "Yes, it's just that simple".

Try it and tell us.

Peter Lauri escreveu:

> Best group members,
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> I have a site where I have an internal message system. With this I 
> want to add functionality so that when a user have a new message, an 
> alert box will show up with that information.
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> What the script actually would do is to every minute connect execute a 
> script that use AJAX to retrieve the number of unread messages, and 
> then alert if it is more then the last time.
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> I want to have a script that does not effect other scripts on the site.
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> Is it as simple as just setting a timer function that triggers my 
> function? Or is it any drawbacks with doing that? Is other scripts 
> available during this time?
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> Best regards,
>
> Peter Lauri
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