[mythtv-users] MythWeb - Refresh page behavior

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Tom,

Saturday, March 15, 2014, 7:45:12 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
>> Is there a setting in MythWeb that controls where the page loads when
>> refreshing the page in the browser?
>>
>> If I'm looking at a page other than the current date/time and I refresh the
>> page, it returns to the current date/time. Is it possible to have it return
>> to the date/time that it was on at the time I refreshed it? Or, if I clicked
>> on a program to set the record parameters and then click on back, it doesn't
>> go back to the page I was on, but to the page for the current date/time. (I
>> get around this be opening the recording parameters page with right click,
>> open in new tab.)
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick Steffens
>>

> Actually no, and I'd say there's no way it could.  The reason is that
> changing times etc within the listings navigates in place updating the
> current page using ajax requests, and as a result doesn't change the
> base URL of the page you're on.  The same is the case with any web
> based app that updates the page via ajax.  The only way it could
> behave the say you're describing would be for all the navigation to
> actually  resubmit the entire page rather than using ajax, which would
> be painfully awful for a whole list of reasons.

> The only other way that could happen would be to remember the
> time/whatever in the session, which wouldn't just retain that when you
> refreshed the page, but *every* time you went to the page, which would
> clearly be undesirable as well.

> Tom
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org

This is a thing that has been annoying me too. And I understand the
difficulty, but couldn't the view moment be saved with a save
timestamp, where this save view is only used if it is for instance
less then an hour old? Or even 30 minutes.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens
--