- From: Barbara Ballard <barbara@littlespringsdesign.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:27:43 -0600
- To: public-bpwg@w3.org
Many have argued that auto-refresh is especially bad for mobile devices due to the cost of network connectivity, as well as due to some accessibility issues. While I tend to agree with this argument for news applications, I disagree for certain other applications. For example, if I am looking at a stock quote, I would prefer to trust that the data is as recent as possible - I may be making financial decisions as a result. Similarly, if I am looking at an email inbox, I would like to have the message list be up-to-date. In particular, on a mobile device, if I've bothered to leave the browser running (highly unlikely on a phone) and pointed to an inbox page, I would like my email list to be up to date - perhaps with a default of 5 minutes like most email applications on computers. This, of course, would be user-settable. Further, while I've never encountered a browser without a Back button (or at least a Clear button which performs the Back function), I have encountered several browsers which do not respect content expiration times. This experience spans 6 years of working with a wide variety (perhaps 60 devices?) of mobile browsers in the US. --- Barbara Ballard 1-785-838-3003 barbara@littlespringsdesign.com
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