Introducing a new buzz word
Monday, 17. December 2007, 01:04:33
While surfing around the web, I bumped into Simon Willison's latest blog post on a new buzz word technique called Comet. For those of you that are not familiar with this, the Comet site gives this explanation:
Comet is a set of techniques providing low-latency data transit for the browser. The two most popular techniques, “forever-frame” and “long-polling”, significantly reduce latency over Ajax polling. Comet in the browsers typically requires a web server optimized for large numbers of long-lived HTTP connections, and a JavaScript client to communicate with the Comet server. A number of open source and commercial options exist today.
Simon explains that this is an alternative to Ajax polling and saves wasted requests. I'm not expert on Ajax, or Comet, or HTML5, but this sounds very much like the same concept as Server Sent Events from HTML5, which Opera added support for some time ago. You can play around with this by going to the demo on the Opera Web apps blog. If this is the case, then it may be interesting to create a solution where the native SSE functionality is used if supported (Opera) or use a library if not. I'd love to see some developers play around with it and give their feedback.
By mcd_, # 17. December 2007, 02:34:42
And BTW: Merry Christmas!!!
By violetisha, # 17. December 2007, 04:42:04
By IceArdor, # 17. December 2007, 06:05:13
hate to say, but id love the devs to spend their time on OperaBug (JS debugger/dev tools), not some stuff that until present in IE/FF will never be used
By anonymous user, # 17. December 2007, 06:21:16
By Tamil, # 17. December 2007, 06:25:49
Frohe Weinachten!
God jul!
By chiken, # 17. December 2007, 07:23:20
By Skip247, # 17. December 2007, 09:25:21
You have an awesome design!!!
By Nikio, # 17. December 2007, 09:27:33
Merry Christmas
By dantesoft, # 17. December 2007, 10:30:35
By DeathKnight1092, # 17. December 2007, 10:37:02
By toadbee, # 17. December 2007, 13:10:26
By czara, # 17. December 2007, 13:16:17
I thought that Comet was the reindeer in front of Dasher.
Maybe you have to be from Canada to get it though.......
By BryanCox, # 17. December 2007, 14:48:44
By zoligrg89, # 17. December 2007, 15:33:34
By Words, # 17. December 2007, 16:08:04
By Salve!, # 17. December 2007, 17:08:36
Open more Web for us
By philry4n, # 17. December 2007, 17:56:30
By Whut, # 17. December 2007, 19:02:41
By babox, # 17. December 2007, 21:31:40
By shigen, # 17. December 2007, 22:06:31
By PientaL, # 17. December 2007, 22:27:10
regards
By Hellas, # 17. December 2007, 22:56:48
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By eztigma, # 18. December 2007, 04:01:19