How to Start a (thread?) and Leave

[Terry Reedy]

<gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1173472226.698504.147260 at h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
| On Mar 9, 3:25 pm, "abcd" <codecr... at gmail.com> wrote:
| > probably a Thread.
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| But a thread leaves the script running until the thread exits, right?
| So the webpage would just keep saying "loading" at the bottom I think.

Can you tell the page to auto-refresh itself every 15 seconds or so?  I 
have seen this as a user but don't know if it is special html code or 
javascript or java or what.

tjr