Aaron,

this will lead you to more resources explanations about Comet
http://cometd.com/

hth

On 30/01/07, Aaron Heimlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If you don't mind my asking, what exactly is comet?

On 1/30/07, Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The new hipness is comet (new for me, @ least), & this plugin will
> take care of the inconsistencies between browser capability for
> streaming.
>
> - For IE, it uses the ihtmldocument2/iframe hack, as used with gtalk
> & described in http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=538
> - Mozilla & Opera use xmlhttprequest, with slightly different
> implementations.
> - Safari & Konqueror (webkit) currently is not supported, due to lack
> of support for xmlhttpreqest's interactive readystate.  I have not
> tried to adjust the iframe technique for this browser engine yet, so
> I don't know if it's possible.
>
> Comet still requires a server-side component for efficient
> processing, but @ the simplest level, all that's needed is a while
> loop with a sleep call (example uses this technique).
>
> I don't consider this a full release yet, as there are several
> modifications I plan to make, but feel free to comment & offer
> suggestions about how to make it more efficient.
>
> Example:
> http://empireenterprises.com/_comet.html
>
> -g
>
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