Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:47:49AM +0200, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: >> >> > 1. is it easy/possible to implement long poll for continuous >> > updates of content from the server to the client in weblocks >> > (for a chat feature, and similiar)? >> >> It's possible and easy to do this as regards Weblocks. > > Last time I asked, I was told there would be no COMET type behaviour > in weblocks because weblocks tries to always be javascript agnostic.
Note that this doesn't prevent anyone from providing a contrib or even something that becomes a part of the main code base. In fact I'd be happy to include it. It's just that the default mode of operation shouldn't use Comet. > I therefore concluded that doing it would also be difficult; can you > give some hints as to *how* to do this? Well, with every new client you spawn a new thread that waits for the client side to connect through an XmlHttpRequest or Websockets and talks to it. It's as simple as that. :) Leslie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weblocks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks?hl=en.
