good news! On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Dear Smalltalkers, > > Past few days I worked on WebSocket implementation in Swazoo Smalltalk > web server [1], in coordination with Philippe Marschall from Seaside [4] > and Nicolas Petton from Iliad [5] devteams, so together with me from > Aida/Web [3] our cooperation ensures that this implementation is ready > to be adapted for all three main web frameworks. > > Why WebSocket? Because it will replace current Comet hacks to enable a > bidirectional messaging between browser and web application, specially > for web app to send something back to the browser without waiting for > user to click something. Read a bit more about WebSocket here: > > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/ > > WebSocket as browser supported technology enables opening an always > present channel, so that web app can send commands like update some > element of the webpage at any time. That's why WebSocket is ideal for so > called "real-time" web. > > You are invited to look at the code for Squeak/Pharo as Swazoo2.3beta1.1 > at http://www.squeaksource.org/Swazoo.html > > A bit more about WebSocket in Swazoo: > > http://www.swazoo.org/websocket > > Best regards > Janko > Swazoo maintainer > > [1] Swazoo WebSocket support > http://www.swazoo.org/websocket > [2] Introducing WebSockets > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/ > [3] Aida/Web > http://www.aidaweb.si > [4] Seaside > http://www.seaside.st > [5] Iliad > http://www.iliadproject.org >
