> > SignalR will still work without WebSockets, it will fall back to long > polling I believe. >
I created the demo app that broadcasts a fake stock ticker. I ran it locally on my Win7 dev machine, then I deployed it to Azure. Fiddler traffic shows that messages are very similar for each scenario and I can see "signalr" in the messages as well as "longPolling". I expected to see different sorts of traffic because it thought it would fallback on my local machine, however they both look roughly the same. Oh well, at least I have proof it works in some mystical way. The code and scripts that make the demo work are obtuse, cryptic, verbose and fragile, and you'd have to take a bit of time to study how it works and get a comfortable feel for it. This confirms my distaste for writing anything with JavaScript involved ... it's the joke of the century. Once day when I'm an old head-in-a-jar and someone has finally made the web function properly, we'll look back and laugh and say "I can't believe we made that junk work!". *Greg K*
