Comet is "hot" because push-style applications are hot. I think an XMPP demo
would be a much more effective way to demonstrate Pivot's support for push.
On Thursday, October 15, 2009, at 09:23AM, "Sandro Martini"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>> I personally see "Comet" as a hack to work around HTML's lack of flexibility
>> for communicating with the server. Pivot app's don't really need Comet since
>> they can take advantage of much more robust ways of implementing push-style
>> apps (XMPP, raw sockets, etc.).
>I agree with you, but Comet can have many ways of connect (from
>clients), and given the fact that's an "hot" thing, maybe some
>experiments from us could be interesting, also to see if all works
>good, at least as in web pages (with tons of hacks and Javascript) ...
>
>Or provide simple demos to show our users that also this stuff is
>available with Pivot.
>As always the problem is the time (and the low priority for it) to
>make it. So my discussion with all us ...
>
>Bye,
>Sandro
>
>
