The module is now obsolete. New frameworks such as comet or HTML5's websockets should be used instead.
Live Update is a module that provides a flexible and scalable to provide up to date in content to users without requiring page refreshes. Live Update uses JQuery to poll lightweight text files that tell the users' browser if new content is available. If so, JQuery then makes another call to get the updated content stored as static HTML.
A blog post detailing how one might use this API to set up a Question and Answer (similar to our PBS Engage work) scenerio is here
API
Live Update provides a simple API for modules hook into and allow Drupal to store, retrieve and insert content updates of all kinds. The API breaks down into two basic functions:
Telling the browser how and where to look for updates and what do to when you found them.
This module allows access to nodes with attached and related files, as well as access to file node contents, via a WebDAV metaphor similar to File Server. The user can browse all files existing in the system by file MIME type, attached- or related-to node type (e.g., event, story, etc.), and attached- or related-to node parent group. Group browsing additionally supports OG Vocabulary integration, which browses by group taxonomy to find attached- or related-to nodes.
For a faster understanding of this module, please see the original author's presentation from Drupalcon DC, available here.
This is an implementation of the UMapper.com API allowing for easy creation and addition of maps to your nodes. You can choose from the following mapping providers:
This module creates an easy live blogging feature to provide live coverage of an event. The content administrator can create a live event node and add updates to that node.
This module is a hybrid of the Nice Menus module and the Taxonomy Menu module. It displays your categories as a menu in a block with the drop-down features of Nice Menus.
Nice Menus, though awesome, can only be used on menus in the Drupal Menu system, not on menus in blocks like, for example, the Taxonomy Context menu. Adding taxonomy menu items to the menu system can be problematic in D5.
Taxonomy Menu has some serious issues for the 5.x branch, the first and foremost being that it creates it's own aliases to your taxonomy/term pages, and therefore won't work with your pathauto settings for categories. This is also very bad for seo, because now each taxonomy/term page has two unique links to it, and will be read by search engines as "duplicate content".
Features:
choose number of nice taxonomy menu blocks
per block vocabulary selection
optional integration with Nice Menus Styles
configurable prefix and suffix for link text
(example: link text can read "taxi rentals in [category]" or "[category] taxi rentals")