Why doesn it persist messages between pageviews?
The short answer is that for my purposes, I haven’t had the need for it to do so. For all the programming I’ve been doing, a pageview is the right duration for relevancy of the logged messages. Originally, I envisioned it with two modes: first, a display panel, with no persistence between pageviews (as it is now); second, a “persistant logging” mode, in which logged messages would be sent back to the server via XMLHTTP, and persisted in a database table. A separate page would poll the database and provide the “log viewer,” complete with filters for date, severity, and IP/machine name of the browser where the message was logged. However, when I got as far as I did, I realized I had an extremely useful tool which I was using all the time. Honestly, I’m not sure how much more I would use the persistent log mode, if I created it. In addition, it would make it more complex to deploy and use (would have to make sure the DB was there, etc.), so in terms of a lightwight, reusable, easy-to-depl
