posted 13 years ago
The problem with broadcasting a notification is that HTTP doesn't permit broadcasting notifications. HTTP is a request/response protocol, so the only time you can send data is if the user has just made a request for data.
About the best you can do is setup a message display on each webpage, write code to fill it in, and give plenty of advance warning before actually recycling.
Either that or use an out-of-band non-HTTP method like "spam", SMS or (where applicable) console broadcasts.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.