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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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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If Ajax apps are to be rich, there must be a way for the server to pass new information to the browser. For example, new stock quotes or an instant message someone else just sent you. But the browser’s not a server, so the server can’t initiate an HTTP connection to alert the browser. The [...]

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Ajax Basics 2 of 3 This is the second of three podcasts on the basic Ajax patterns. Podcast 1: Display Patterns and the DOM. Podcast 2: Web Remoting – XMLHttpRequest, IFrame Call, HTTP Streaming. Podcast 3: Dynamic Behaviour – Events and Timing. Podcast 2: Web Remoting (XMLHttpRequest, IFrame, HTTP Streaming) This 75 minute podcast covers web remoting concepts and the [...]

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