(this is more of a browser-related question than of a quixote-related
question, but let me try my chance ...)

Suppose I start a long-running computation from a web page.
The browser must periodically check to see if the computation has
terminated. My current solution is to use a
 tag that reloads the
page every 2 seconds, or any other fixed number of seconds. However,
this does not work with certain browsers (for instance both elinks
and lynx have issues do not refresh the page). The same problem
happens with "redirect". How am I supposed to redesign my application
to make it working on any browser? Do you have any hints?
This looks like a common situation. TIA,

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