WebSocket consists of a simple Javascript API and a protocol definition. It is fairly simple in concept and the Javascript API makes it very easy to use within any web page. There is lots of talk about compatibility, ...Read More
Category: Real-time web
iPhone and iPad WebSocket support
With the release of iOS 4.2 yesterday Mobile Safari has been upgraded to support WebSocket, along with some other new features too. I have been reasonably vocal about how WebSocket isn't the answer to everything, mainly ...Read More
HTML5 WebSocket support
Dylan has posted a good round up of the state of WebSocket support over on CometDaily. As you can see, the browser support is limited, and the version of WebSocket supported comes into it too. The ...Read More
The Web is Dead. Long Live the (3D) Web
Ok, well actually it's a bit more like the web is getting ready to transform. - quite literally. ;-) Developers will start needing to get familiar with depth cueing, mip mapping, vector normals, and perspective transforms as the ...Read More
Real world benchmarking scenarios
I have blogged about benchmarking before, describing the process. Most of the benchmarking I have done on Liberator and other products has used fairly simple scenarios, testing the core capabilities of the server to pass messages to clients as fast ...Read More
Will IE9 save us from IE6?
Microsoft have released a beta of IE9, you can download it from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/. It seems that the battle of the browsers these days has a lot to do with being the best and fastest for modern standards ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
RT @detyro: Time to get Emotional about your markup: http://bit.ly/9FEYBg the W3C release Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 #RT @ian_alderson:RT @bymathias: jScrollPane http://bit.ly/dxiVPK #jquery plugin-allows ...Read More
Make bidirectional use of Comet – not just half of it!
In my blog Comet Servers for a Single-Dealer Platform (SDP) one of the questions I posed was whether a Comet server supports bidirectional messaging. The key feature of Comet has always been the 'server push' aspect - being able to ...Read More
So what can you do with Free Liberator?
Last week I was on the panel at the London Ajax Comet event along with a number of other people representing Comet products. Comet servers are nothing new and there are lots of options out there now, some open source, ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
RT @ajaxian: Strobe; A hot new HTML5-touch startup founded by Charles Jolley: http://bit.ly/blCsau #RT @cometdaily: Reminder, London Comet panel is tonight http://www.meetup.com/londonajax/calendar/13682478/ @london_ajax #Platformability's latest ...Read More