Dear APE and community, I'm just getting starting with APE, so my apologies in advance if this question is obvious or irrelevant...
My question: Has the core team or others considered implementing an additional transport method for Internet Explorer that make's use of it's native, "htmlfile" ActiveXObject component to establish a streaming connection (as opposed to us having to revert back to long poll?). I'm curious if this has been attempted but dismissed and if so, why? Just asking b/c I've used this method in the past successfully to establish persistent, client to server, connections as explained here (course using php for the chat server, will not scale): http://cometdaily.com/2007/10/25/http-streaming-and-internet-explorer/ http://www.zeitoun.net/articles/comet_and_php/start So... Could the APE.Client class in Clients/Mootools.js (from APE_JSF) not be rewritten to accommodate an IE ActiveXObject connection method? Instead of injecting the iframe (line 72 - 80 in Clients/Mootools.js) into document.body, we inject the iframe into the new "htmlfile" ActiveXObject object, attach the required config.scripts to it, and then sort out any dependency/callback mapping back to original document, if needed? (Can see, I'm still sussing out how APE client works - esp. w/ the callback/events model). OR is it more a problem from the server end? I can provide more of a code example, maybe test on my own, first, too. I was just curious if others have already gone down this route, and should stop be NOW before spending any more time on it... Bottom line, though, since majority of my viewers, as well as most others', are on IE, it would nice to have support for a streaming transport method vs. reverting to long poll. Or is my rationale off, and we're better off with long poll vs. streaming? Any opinions/thoughts welcomed. Thanks, Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APE Project" 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/ape-project?hl=en --- APE Project (Ajax Push Engine) Official website : http://www.ape-project.org/ Git Hub : http://github.com/APE-Project/
