I ran across it, but didn't look much into it. I will definitely check it out. With some cursory reading, it looks like it may be a nice fit as well.
Thanks! ~Philip On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Ryan Florence <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you looked at Guillermo's Socket.IO? > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Philip Thompson wrote: > > Hi all. > > I am going to be creating a notification center which will manage > notifications between various objects in my application. I want the > notifications to be pretty much real time (less than 15 seconds delay). For > example, if object A (someone on computer A) does something that object B > (someone else on computer B) is "observing," I want object B to be notified > about it. I'm not really looking to use sockets on the backend (but would > consider it). Right now I'm talking about the front-end implementation. > > My initial thought for getting notifications would be to add a periodical > event that checks for updates. Something like so... > > var req = new Request.JSON({ > method: 'get', > url: 'notifications.php?id=123456', > link: 'chain', > onComplete: function () { > // Do whatever > } > }); > // Check every 10 seconds > req.send.periodical(10000); > > Is this a good way to manage these notifications? What are the pros and > cons of this? I noticed that Facebook has recently started doing live > updates to feeds, but not really sure how they accomplish it. > > Thanks in advance! > > ~Philip > > -- > http://lonestarlightandsound.com/ > > > -- http://lonestarlightandsound.com/
