Errai FTW On 15 March 2016 at 23:08, Peter Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don't forget about EventSource / Server Sent Events. > > > > Browser support: http://caniuse.com/#search=eventsource > > There are polyfills for IE/Edge: https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource > > (there are other mentioned in README.md) > > > > The advantage over websockets is that it uses plain http connection, just > > long lived and managed by the browser itself (do not mistake it for long > > polling). That means it should not be affected by firewalls. > > We ended up having to use a combination of technologies for all the > browsers we need to support. So we use > > * Periodic & Long Polling: Just HTTP(S) so works in all browsers > across all intermediaries. See > https://github.com/realityforge/gwt-webpoller > * EventSource / Server Sent Events: Faster than polling, works in a > lot of browsers. See https://github.com/realityforge/gwt-eventsource > * Web Sockets: Fastest and easiest to use programatically but least > compatible. See https://github.com/realityforge/gwt-websockets > > HTH, > > Peter Donald > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alain Ekambi Co-Founder Ahomé Innovation Technologies http://www.ahome-it.com/ <http://ahome-it.com/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
