How does this compare with XHRStreaming?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Jon <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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