On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Alejandro Serrano Mena <trup...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with you that maybe this proposal is vague for a GSoC, but I don't > think that websockets is a good option either, because not all browsers > support them.
We already have a websockets library, but like you say it is not very useful by itself because it may not be supported in all browsers. The GSoC proposal is to create a library that will use appropriate fallbacks on all browsers, which is how websockets are normally used. > > > 2012/3/7 Greg Weber <g...@gregweber.info> >> >> This is obviously a great concept. However, it may not be appropriate >> for a GSoC. The design space is far too open, and it is not clear if >> anything in that space will end up beating plain old javascript. >> >> I think my proposal for an awesome websockets library [1] shows that >> this is putting the cart before the horse. For some of the potential >> javascript solutions, websockets is a dependency anyways. Without >> being able to hold open a connection to the server, required server >> interaction will be too slow. >> Yesod has been successful by explicitly avoiding any new radical >> paradigms, but by instead just trying to get the basics of web >> development established correctly. Without websockets, we don't have >> the basics down for fluid client-side interaction. >> The groundwork for this ticket has been laid: it should be easy to >> accomplish with time left over. >> So we are guaranteed a clear win for the community. With the time left >> over, a solution to the javascript problem can be attempted. But there >> is no burden for it to be solved within the summer. Next year the >> landscape will be more mature and we can try to come up with a solid >> proposal for the javscript problem if the community hasn't already >> created a solution. >> >> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1607 > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe