Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Enright
Although the XMLHttpRequest has the capability of making a DOM available from the resulting text, the client and server don't have to make use of it. One could take the responseText and pass it to eval() if the other end sent JSON. A BEEP API should support any valid use of BEEP, just as XMLHttpRe

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Ted Goddard
On 2-Nov-06, at 5:05 AM, Dave Raggett wrote: well how about an XMLBEEPRequest specification then? Beep is kind of like a bidirectional version of HTTP and includes multiplexing capabilities with stream prioritization, see: http://beepcore.org/index.html Beep isn't in widespread use a

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Ted Goddard
On 2-Nov-06, at 4:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: FYI: The list for raising issues on XMLHttpRequest is public- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I'll bring up the topic there as well. Changing the policy on browser connection limits is lightweight enough, though, that whatwg could be very effective

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Raggett
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: FYI: The list for raising issues on XMLHttpRequest is [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:34:24 +0100, Ted Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I would like to propose that the HTTP connection limit be standardized at two per user-initia

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Anne van Kesteren
FYI: The list for raising issues on XMLHttpRequest is [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:34:24 +0100, Ted Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I would like to propose that the HTTP connection limit be standardized at two per user-initiated window. (For instance, Safari is not limit

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-01 Thread Ted Goddard
On 1-Nov-06, at 4:42 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Hello, I think we're starting to see some of the limits of HTTP being hit. We're actually quite far from using the full capabilities of HTTP. We're definitely bumping into limits exposed by HTTP implementations, though (in the case of

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-01 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello,I think we're starting to see some of the limits of HTTP being hit.Personally, I'd like to a protocol which allows communication in both ways.HTTP 1.2?  XMPP/Jabber?  Something else? See yaOn 11/1/06, Ted Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ajax applications often make use of multiple concurre

[whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-01 Thread Ted Goddard
Ajax applications often make use of multiple concurrent HTTP requests; in particular Ajax Push (Comet/Reverse Ajax) makes use of two HTTP connections: one to block waiting for messages from the server, the other to send messages to the server. The problem is that the connection limit for many br