I've recently built a simple messaging system for some work colleagues and I am currently working on optimizing current functionality. Many users are complaining of a messy-looking message display system.
The thing that I currently have in place is a PHP file inside of an iFrame that refreshes every 15 seconds. However this is undesirable and wastes resources.
As a result I was wondering if there are any tutorials out there that propose better methods, similar to those used by Facebook whereby the comment is automatically loaded upon posting.