On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:24 -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > because there can only be one outstanding request -- with continuous polling.
Unless I misunderstood you, this is not quite true. You can have as many outstanding requests as you have XMLHTTPRequest objects. And, of course, you can do AJAX Push using various techniques. So it really is not all that different, except that you have to strip the HTTP envelope. Thanks, Roman.