posted 13 years ago
The image is part of the page, so by definition, refreshing the image means refreshing the page.
You can do partial page refresh using AJAX to update only the image (and I have done that), but it's still a page update.
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.