Have been trying to get my head around timers in javascript. And I guess i know how it works now. My approach:
<script>
var timer;
function whatever() {
if ( timer )
clearTimeout(timer);
alert("you just wasted 15 seconds of your life..");
timer = startTimeout('whatever()', 15000);
}
</script>
and in the html:
<body onLoad="timer = startTimeout('whatever()', 15000);"> yada yada..
this will generate an annoying popup (if I made the example correct..) every 15 seconds..
Why I need this? Well, on tv.autopsy.se I want to update the search cloud continuously without having to do some reloads. And I also have a timer that waits 4s to insert data into the database for the search cloud. Neat, huh?
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