>Sounds like you could set a flag on the server and check for it when you write the page with the "onload" javascript event, but, I don't know how you'd get around rewriting the page. In ASPvote, we use the JS SRC string to run a server app that returns JavaScript, but, even that refreshes the whole page or frame. I've seen DHTML on the MSNBC site that refreshes just that area of the page. i think they do that with the Javascript Eval statement...

Yes, in our case, here for example, when we have frames, such as the message counter, reply counter, etc., we can update only specific items. The problem is when we have only the default browser page. I don't know if they are using that or another approach. However, it seems that whenever we want to do that, we have to design it at first. Deciding to add that ability when you have over 100 pages is rather difficult.