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by nwellnhof 2604 days ago
That's exactly how I implemented a web chat around 2002. IIRC, Internet Explorer didn't update the iframe with the chat messages reliably, so I had to fall back to reloading. The whole thing was rather inefficient, simply polling a database for new messages every second, but it worked fine for about 10-20 users.