Cool thing! We need sth. similar for OSM! :)
Peter River Tarnell schrieb: > Ilmari Karonen: >> In principle, it should also be possible to make a true live Wikimedia >> edit counter: all you'd need to do is subscribe to the IRC RecentChanges >> feed and condense it down to some suitably low-bandwidth, low-latency >> format for transmitting to the browser. I'm not sure how practical that >> would be with plain old AJAX, though (you really don't want to make a >> new request for every edit), but Java or Flash or something like that >> ought to handle it fine. > > I did something similar to this in JS alone: > > <http://toolserver.org/~river/recentchanges/> > > It requires 1 request per second to update, but the backend is a C++ > FastCGI and the database query is trivial, so the requests create no > noticeable load. I imagine it should be fairly simple to do something > similar for a plain number-of-edits counter. (You would only need to > return number of edits, rather than the edits themselves, so a little > less bandwidth would be used.) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
