On 10/6/06, Trevor Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in order for them both to received updates (each 'tick' of the clock) from > the model they would 'register' with the model > > the model would hold a list of all it's observers and when a > notifyObservers() method is called on the model it would send an update to > all the views in it's list telling them about it's current state.
Ah, I understand now. This is necessary for a statefull application (like a desktop app) but won't work without jumping through a lot of hoops in a stateless application like a web page. Of course, you could start talking about Comet but I think that's a topic for another mailing list. (Comet is the concept of "streaming AJAX" where you create long-lived XmlHTTPRequest connections and push updates from the server to the client) -- Chris Hartjes "The greatest inefficiencies come from solving problems you will never have." -- Rasmus Lerdorf @TheBallpark - http://www.littlehart.net/attheballpark @TheKeyboard - http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" 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/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
