Tom, THANK YOU! You helped me address a couple of issues I've never known before. (Of course, I'm still new with this web stuff, so an awful lot of this is new to me.) If I open up a subordinate window, I can write text to it, but it is going to clear the window when I do an open. But, and this is the part that you probably already knew but I didn't guess at, I can use the different properties of that window to make changes even among different pages! This is so cool... To wit -> If I have a window open called "Stock" with a table, and a cell within that table with an ID="sDollars", then from the 'main' window, I can do this: sdWin = open('', 'Stock'); sdWin.document.all.sDollars.innerText = "$100"; (I think I copied this correctly.) Anyway, it works under IE, doesn't work at the moment for Netscape - I know the object reference is something different, just haven't found it yet. Thanks again! Ken

Message: 17 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:31:09 -0400 From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@mitretek.org> Subject: RE: [Zope] Writing to browser from an external script?

Well, I would consider an auto-refresh in another frame (possibly an iframe) or in a popup window. When the auto-refresh loads, you can have it send the updated data to the parent. The parent can do with it whatever it wants. Of course, you need to use javascript to make this work. I would be happy with that, myself.

A more web-like approach would be to set up another resource - another url - that the main page should keep checking to get new data from