Naw - the small connection limit (usually two) is per page. I forget how much IE defaults to, but Firefox allows up to something like 32 simultaneous connections. So push would still be an option.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Arthur Kalmenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd venture to guess that they're using polling because I think you > can have as many Gmail tabs open as you want. If it used push, you'd > run out of connections and that would be nasty. > > -- > Arthur Kalmenson > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Vitali Lovich <[email protected]> wrote: >> Out of curiosity do you know how they get new e-mails to appear in the web >> UI? Is it AJAX push or do they just do a regular poll every x seconds? >> >> If it's AJAX push approach, I wonder if there's any scalability issues with >> maintaining so many open TCP connections & if they just solve it by throwing >> hardware at the problem until it goes away, or if they do some kind of >> tricks as well to minimize the resource load of connections that are just >> waiting for data on the server. >> >> I'm guessing that load balancing would occur when the AJAX call is >> established due to the previous call timing out or returning data (probably >> live migration of connections would be far too complicated & overkill). >> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Jason Essington <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Since Gmail predates GWT by several years, it wasn't written in GWT ... >>> >>> As for rich text widgets, they all use the browser's built in HTML >>> editing capabilities, making them a bit finicky. >>> >>> -jason >>> >>> On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Vitali Lovich wrote: >>> >>> > Does anyone know if gmail uses GWT for its widgets and whatnot? >>> > Partially curiosity & partially I regularly have problems with the >>> > rich editing widget not displaying the cursor properly under Firefox. >>> > >>> > > >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
