Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: mouse movement detection? Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:57:51 -0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <5jmrvpnl392w$.dlg@evanplatt.sux> <97ep98-c2m.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <5331105.9J7NaK4W3v@PointedEars.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5FQzpG9PgxCHgWX2ynv4yg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:1532 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >> Jeff North wrote: >>> richard wrote: >>>>| Just curious to know if PHP, or other script language, has a method of >>>>| detecting mouse movement. >>>>| I had left a website page open all night and in the morning found I had >>>>| been transferred to another page that said my mouse had been idle for >>>>| 10 minutes. >>>>| I have a hunch that it was probably due more to nothing happening on >>>>| the page for a couple of hours. >>> >>> It could be javascript and timers or the page header has a refresh >>> setting >> >> Can't be done with just an HTML refresh. > > Yes, it can, but like client-side scripting it is not guaranteed to work. OK then, tell us what HTML tag will tell you whether or not the mouse has moved. Doing it in javascript is rather trivial. > Do you have permission to use sux.com? Permission to do what exactly? -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply.