polling jquery

pollurl.js

  function pollUrl(url, renderer) {
    return function(render){
      if(render == undefined) { render = renderer; }
      $.getJSON(url, function(data){
        render(data);
      }).always(function(){
        setTimeout(pollUrl(url, render), 5000);
      });
    };
  }
  
  /*now poll and render*/
  pollUrl("localhost/stats")(function(data){
    $("#view").html(data);
  });