But that's just on the browser side of things which is relatively easy to do (although you can't use XHR of course). The hard thing is scaling things on the server side because of the one-fastcgi-process-per-request problem and the fact that a "Comet request" never ends.
On 4/22/06, Andrew Kaspick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see no point in holding back either. > > I was at CoR as well and saw the same stuff. I thought it was cool, > but it's not as groundbreaking as you might think. > > Comet uses iframe hacks and armageddon uses a flash "hack". Yes, I > said hack. :) Although the solution looks much cleaner, I don't > believe it to be as portable a solution because of the use of flash, > but does that matter??? I don't know, we'll see I guess. > > Looking forward to seeing more info on Armageddon though. > > On 4/21/06, Eric Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That's lame. Please ruin the "surprise". > > > > --ejw > > > > Eric Woodward > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On 20-Apr-06, at 6:27 PM, Giles Bowkett wrote: > > >> Are we rewriting a complete messaging infrastructure software in > > >> Rails > > >> here or is there a way of doing this that's so incredibly clever and > > >> simple that I've completely missed it. > > > > > > There is a way of doing this that is so incredibly clever and simple > > > that you've completely missed it. > > > > > > I got to see it at Canada on Rails and I think you'll see it soon > > > enough. I'd tell you but I don't want to ruin the surprise. > > > > > > -- > > > Giles Bowkett > > > http://www.gilesgoatboy.org > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Rails-core mailing list > > > Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails-core mailing list > > Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-core mailing list > Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core > _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
