browser-refresh

First time I view the page with an animated .gif it plays fine on page load (lasts about 2 secs). On refresh (F5), the .gif no longer plays and only the last frame of gif animation is shown. Is there anything I can do do to make sure it plays everytime? For the PHP the much better option then using date("Ymdgis"); is using time() , like this: <img src="picturePath.gif?<?php echo time();?>" /> Strange behavior that's affects every browser.. I usually refresh it manually with this script (it uses jQuery) <img id="gif_animata" src="picturePath.gif"> <script type="text/javascript"> var gifSource =

When doing web development, you frequently make changes and then refresh the browser. Is there an easy way to have a daemon listening for changes in the filesystem, and when there is one, to send a refresh message to Firefox or Safari? This would really improve your workflow and focus. You could keep your browser running in a separate screen, and when you're working on UI related changes, it would automatically refresh as you're working. It would be like using autotest when doing TDD. (See http://github.com/svoop/autotest-fsevent ) Has anybody done this? I can think of a way to do this for

I have a JSF page which posts data to an external page. The data is loaded from a JSF managed bean which generates a unique ID in the post data. I have an issue where a user clicks on a checkout button then navigates back to the same page and presses the checkout button again. The post data has not updated. Moreover, the bean is not invoked at all. Is there anyway to force JSF to reload the page and the form data? <form action="#{checkoutBean.externalUrl}" method="post" id="payForm" name="payForm"> <input type="hidden" value="#{checkoutBean.uniqueID}" /> <input type="submit" value="Proceed to