title: Thoughts on a Shoutbox anyone?
body: <p>I'm wanting to create a shoutbox, though I'm wondering if there is another way to go about this rather than using setInterval to query the database for new shouts every number of seconds.  Honestly, I don't like having to go about it this way.  Seems a bit redundant and repetitive and just plain old wrong.  Not to mention the blinking of the shouts as it grabs the data.</p>
  
  <p>So I'm wondering on how the professionals do this?  I mean, I've seen shoutboxes that work surperb and doesn't seem to be using any setInterval or setTimeout javascript functions to do this.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone suggest any ideas or an approach to this that doesn't use setInterval or setTimeout??</p>
  
  <p>Thanks :)</p>