On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 15:06, Michael Ryan Byrd wrote: > How does a server push content to a browser -- or rather, how does it appear to > do such? > > For example, consider a chat room application (like > http://phpopenchat.org/features.php), where the text from users appears on the > screen as users enter it in. All, without an annoying flash of a meta-refresh > tag, or a page reloading or anything. > > Are they using javascript on a timer to poll the server to get the info and post > it? Anybody ever done this? > > Ideas?
I seem to remember a pure Javascript + XML based chat program out there. Maybe holovaty.com was it's creator? There's actually a couple, but one was of particularly high quality. Sorry I don't have the link anymore. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> "Because we frequently suffer from the scourge of information pollution, we find it hard to imagine its even deadlier opposite â information starvation. I get very annoyed when I hear arguments â usually from those who have been educated beyond their intelligence â about the virtues of keeping happy, backwards people in ignorance." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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