Archive of WebSocket
Why we don’t need HTML5 WebSocket
I was going to blog about HTML5 WebSocket last week, but got side tracked. In the meantime Greg Wilkins wrote an excellent piece covering some of what I wanted to say – http://blogs.webtide.com/gregw/entry/websocket_chat The idea of WebSocket is sound – it should get past some of the limitations of the…
Read MoreThe Rumours of Comet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Joe Armstrong in a recent blog post (which made it to reddit) announces the coronation of HTML 5 websockets now that Google has added them to Chrome. He’s also pleased to relegate Comet, long polling and its friends to the grave. This confuses comet with the techniques used to achieve…
Read MoreSockets, Messages and the Pub Sub Paradigm: Approaches to Streaming
There are many products and projects out there that allow you to stream data to clients from a server, and most letting you send data back to a server too. There are various approaches that have been taken to achieve this which will be explored in this article. In a…
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