Re: [vos-d] Thinking about Javascript

2007-04-20 Thread HEBLACK, J
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 12:58 -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: Is anyone here familiar with Javascript much? Below is a summary about that. I'm wondering what kind of networking tools are available from Javascript. IEs 4 Linux Internet Explorer 6, 5.5, 5 on Linux:

Re: [vos-d] Thinking about Javascript

2007-04-18 Thread Reed Hedges
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:27:21AM +, Lalo Martins wrote: One problem I have with the pure-js version is the nature of HTTP; either the browser would need to keep a persistent connection to the server, like some web chat rooms do -- which is error prone (hard to recover from a

Re: [vos-d] Thinking about Javascript

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Amstutz
Well, one approach would be to treat HTTP as an unreliable/stateless channel, implement stateful, connection-oriented sessions on top of that, and then have VOS (both on the server side and in the browser) run on that layer. So then it would easy to push updates to the browser by queuing

[vos-d] Thinking about Javascript

2007-04-16 Thread Reed Hedges
Is anyone here familiar with Javascript much? I'm wondering what kind of networking tools are available from Javascript. I've been reading about a thing some people call Comet, (http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545) which basically a publish/push model for the server to update pages live. It