Creating lots of connections would probably have a large overhead making it slower than if you waited for the whole processing to end, for each connection you have to factor the 2-way latency + server response time. A better approach and already usable is HTTP Streaming/ Comet:
http://ajaxpatterns.org/HTTP_Streaming On May 29, 7:36 pm, Andrew Ingram <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not even sure if this is possible with JavaScript at the moment, > but it would make a powerful feature if it were. > > If returning a list of resources as the response to a request, it's > relatively trivial to configure the app (in Django at least) to flush > the stream after each resource and provide a semi real-time feed of > results, ie you don't have to wait for the last item to be calculated > before the first one is returned. This uses Content-Encoding chunked. > > I was thinking that if jQuery could somehow recognise these types of > response, it could iterate over these individual resources as they > come over the wire, then the callback would be given individual items > rather than the full response. This would make AJAXy functionality > even more responsive because you can start handling parts of the > response before the server has even finished generating the later > parts. > > Maybe this is already possible, but I couldn't have any documentation > or mention of it. > > Any thoughts on this idea? > > Regards, > Andrew Ingram --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" 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/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
