On Monday 06 February 2006 12:22, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime Today, DRR cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > I expect an answer to my poblems... > > ok, fine, here's the answer to your problems. Go ahead, download the > source code of gaim, hack it to make it work with a proxy (not too
I hope you realize you are embarassing yourself. Gaim already has an option to use proxy servers ( socks 4/5 and http + authentication ). > About meebo - here's a technical reason why it's not 'as good' as a > desktop app. Meebo is based on a pull model. ie, the web client > keeps polling the server to find out if something has changed, and > then pulls the data if it is. Your desktop app works in a push-pull > model. The server can push data to the client when it has something, > and the client can pull data from the server if it wants something. > > Why is one better than the other? Polling in general is not good. > There is too much CPU, application time and network overhead lost in > checking for updates. There's also the issue of how often does one > poll. If you poll too fast, you could overwhelm the server and > network. If you poll too slowly, you lose the pseudo real time feel. > With sufficient guess work and testing, you can settle on a > reasonable window that's 'acceptable' if not perfect. > > I don't see anything wrong from meebo's point of view. I'd thought > of doing something similar in 2003 as a sample implementation of > libyahoo2, but the aforementioned trust issues are what told me to > spend my time elsewhere. If you're good enough, maybe you can take > that forward. Good explanation. But with Ajax there really isn't another way of implementing it. > It's fine to ask questions, but when you live on the cutting edge, > you have to be prepared to maybe find the answer on your own. A fine statement indeed. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
