[Javascript] Auto reloading JS files on change?

[Roger Roelofs]

Mark,

On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Rees, Mark wrote:

> I have the following in an HTML file that is
> echo'd to the browser via PHP code.
>
> <script src="ajax/players.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
>
> But whenever this, and other, .js files are
> modified the user must know to hit the refresh
> button on his browser.
>
> I've been looking for a way to reload the JS files
> on changes, and I've come across the last-modified
> header element, but not sure how to implement this.


Have you looked at JSONP?
http://simonwillison.net/2005/Dec/16/json/

It basically works by letting you specify a function for the inserted  
script to call so you can know when it has loaded and process any data  
it contains.  The recent version of jQuery has support built in for  
this.

Roger
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