Steve Bennett wrote: > The only way > you can achieve the appearance of asynchronous responses > from the server is via polling, with all the attendant downsides. One > approach is to use AJAX as a way of minimising the polling traffic, > but it is still polling.
No, that is not true. Look up comet/long-poll/long-get/reverse-ajax (all names for the same thing). I'm implementing it now for a board. It's a lovely way to get "instant" updates on the web page when something changes on the device. On the big wide web, it's more efficient in some ways and less efficient in some ways than polling. But that doesn't matter for a small device and local browser. There, the difference is AJAX is (much!) easier, but comet provides updates with more of a "real-time" feel. -- Jamie _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
