cache data feed for webpage

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I'm still a novice website builder, so please go easy on me ...

I am displaying a webpage onto a TV viewable to the public. There is a networked media player behind the TV which plays the webpage, it's not a PC.

The webpage displays regularly updated data which comes from a MySQL database, and I simply use a page refresh to update the webpage. So everything works well, however ... if there is a loss of internet connection, then of course an error appears on the TV when the page refreshes.

Is there a way to remove the page refresh, have a piece of code that will still retrieve the data in the background, and ideally cache that data so that even if there is a loss of internet the TV will still continue to display correctly (even if the data is slightly outdated) ?

Many thanks.

Is the user-agent JavaScript capable? Look into "service workers".... — Kevin_Kinsey, Sep 19 '17 at 19:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '17 at 19:50

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Sounds like a job for AJAX. You could also look into service workers.

answered Sep 19 '17 at 19:50

pucky124

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I don't know anything about service workers, but yes it does seem that perhaps AJAX could provide the solution. Thanks. – trademark Sep 22 '17 at 08:13

cache data feed for webpage

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