includeHTTP macro and update frequency

[Lawrence Lee]

You can change either of the 60s... 60 seconds x 60.

This Scripting News entry from December 30, 2000 details the origins of
the macro:

"I know about JavaScript-based includes, but they're slow and complex
and are cached in weird ways. Then I realized we could do it in Manila,
and while I was doing macros yesterday I got this going. It may be
revolutionary or it might mean nothing. Perhaps we'll find out."

http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2000/12/30#newMacro

Lawrence

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Mitchell [mailto:dan at mitchell.fhda.edu]
> Sent: August 20, 2001 1:31 PM
> To: frontier-users at userland.com
> Cc: Lawrence Lee
> Subject: Re: includeHTTP macro and update frequency
> 
> 
> Hey, thanks for the quick reply Lawrence.
> 
> I do run my own Frontier server so I can make the changes.
> Can you tell me what the _two_ instances of the number "60" 
> on that line are. I assume that they might be minutes and 
> seconds but which is which? Or is something else going on.
> 
> By the way, I'm not sure what the "assumed use" of the macro
> might be. Userland seems to be pretty vague about it ("might 
> be useful, might not..." ;-). 
> 
> Here's how I'm using it. I'm generating some plain vanila
> (unformatted) pages from a filemaker database. Then I plug 
> these pages into Manila sites (by including the URL-based 
> filemaker search strings) so that they get rendered using the 
> Manila sites' style sheets.
> 
> It seems to work pretty well. The rendering of the database
> can look quite different on two different sites.
> 
> Another cool thing about this is that I can actually render
> multiple filemaker db lists (or multiple views of the same 
> db) on the same page by including multiple includeHTTP macros.
>