Software As She’s Developed

Update (couple of hrs later): I mailed Alex Russell (the guy who named Comet and knows plenty about it), it sounds like he’s been investigating this whole area and he’s sent me his views. We know about Comet (AKA Push, HTTP Streaming) and its ability to keep streaming info from server to browser. How about streaming [...]

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Comet Takes to IE Like a Fish Takes to Acid Comet - or HTTP Streaming, if you will - is a little sensitive when it comes to portability, and I'll give you four guesses which major browser is causing the grief? Yeah, IE makes it difficult for two reasons: (a) IE's XMLHttpRequest component doesn't tell [...]

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Here's a podcast about Comet - exploring the two-way web with Ajax. From my Ajaxian post earlier today: Alex Russell has coined a term for a flavour of Ajax that’s been getting more attention of late. Comet describes applications where the server keeps pushing - or streaming - data to the client, instead of having the browser [...]

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