Don't even get me started on javascript. I feel just as dirty using javascript as I did with silverlight version 1. God save us
On Wednesday, 8 April 2015, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > SignalR will still work without WebSockets, it will fall back to long >> polling I believe. >> > > I created the demo app that broadcasts a fake stock ticker. I ran it > locally on my Win7 dev machine, then I deployed it to Azure. Fiddler > traffic shows that messages are very similar for each scenario and I can > see "signalr" in the messages as well as "longPolling". I expected to see > different sorts of traffic because it thought it would fallback on my local > machine, however they both look roughly the same. Oh well, at least I have > proof it works in some mystical way. > > The code and scripts that make the demo work are obtuse, cryptic, verbose > and fragile, and you'd have to take a bit of time to study how it works and > get a comfortable feel for it. This confirms my distaste for writing > anything with JavaScript involved ... it's the joke of the century. Once > day when I'm an old head-in-a-jar and someone has finally made the web > function properly, we'll look back and laugh and say "I can't believe we > made that junk work!". > > *Greg K* >
