"Subscribing" to an OEIS page

[Jonathan Sondow]

1/ in Firefox this feature is of course also implemented (2nd link in
Bookmarks menu in my version 2.0.0.13)

2/ in fact your IE does not know which part of the page is relevant
data. On the bottom of each page is written how many sequences are in
OEIS and when it has been updated; also the time needed to create the
page.

One way to fix this would be to subscribe to the text format, e.g.
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/?q=id%3aA137999&p=1&n=10&fmt=3
this also includes the time needed for the search, but with some luck,
it will always be
"Search completed in 0.001 seconds"
if you just request one "id:xxx"

Maximilian

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jonathan Sondow
<jsondow at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Dear SeqFans,
>
>  With Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac, you can "subscribe" to any Web page.
>  When you subscribe to a page, IE monitors the page and notifies you when the
>  page is updated.
>
>  Subscribing to OEIS pages should be a useful way to monitor them for
>  changes. However, when I subscribe to the page of a sequence, IE notifies me
>  every day that it has changed, even when it has (apparently) not changed.
>
>  Can anyone explain this and/or suggest a fix?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Jonathan
>
>



Dear Maximilian,

Many thanks for the explanation and especially for the fix!

Jonathan


On 3/31/08 9:36 AM Maximilian Hasler wrote:

> 1/ in Firefox this feature is of course also implemented (2nd link in
> Bookmarks menu in my version 2.0.0.13)
> 
> 2/ in fact your IE does not know which part of the page is relevant
> data. On the bottom of each page is written how many sequences are in
> OEIS and when it has been updated; also the time needed to create the
> page.
> 
> One way to fix this would be to subscribe to the text format, e.g.
> http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/?q=id%3aA137999&p=1&n=10&fmt=3
> this also includes the time needed for the search, but with some luck,
> it will always be
> "Search completed in 0.001 seconds"
> if you just request one "id:xxx"
> 
> Maximilian
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jonathan Sondow
> <jsondow at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
>> Dear SeqFans,
>> 
>> With Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac, you can "subscribe" to any Web page.
>> When you subscribe to a page, IE monitors the page and notifies you when the
>> page is updated.
>> 
>> Subscribing to OEIS pages should be a useful way to monitor them for
>> changes. However, when I subscribe to the page of a sequence, IE notifies me
>> every day that it has changed, even when it has (apparently) not changed.
>> 
>> Can anyone explain this and/or suggest a fix?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan