For example, lots of examples show how to display the current time every few seconds. Each event adds a line below the previous one like:
The time is 1:00
The time is 1:01
The time is 1:02
What I want to do is receive data that I can use to update text on a page that does not show as multiple lines.
I would like to be able to handle the received data by SSE and handle the text just like any other.
There are a few examples of sending xml or json as the data, but I can't figure out how to parse it out of the
received message and apply it to elements of a page.
I'm trying to keep this short, but I hope you can see what I'm trying to do.
On a previous page that I created, I used polling to update inner html and that works, except the polling is
not the best way to go. I really only send messages every several minutes, but when I do I want them to appear
within a few seconds, so I would have to be polling all the time just to do a few updates now and then.
The SSE method looks really useful, but I just need to be able to grab the data and format it.
Thanks.
JS
