If you're thinking about going down that route, I'd say using a Java applet would be more useful (and slightly more portable). I say more useful because you'd then also have access to the rest of the JRE libraries (threading, etc..). Scripting the DOM from an applet (and vice versa) is quite easy.
But, if you're talking about holding an open socket connection, I would think there are some security hurdles with that (although not sure to what extent). In a soon-to-be-implemented version of my framework, I'm going to make an attempt at using an applet to expose true threading services to an AJAX application (for things like garbage collection, etc..). The setTimeout and setInterval functions are nice, but just don't cut it when you really want a new thread :-). Perhaps comet will come into play, but I just don't see it being all that necessary yet. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Thomas Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:16 AM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Comet support? You could use a small flash object on the page to do the communication to a socket server. Not sure about how easy it is to pass stuff between flash and javascript thought. Richard Thomas - CEO Cyberlot Technologies Group Inc. 507.398.4124 - Voice Roberto Saccon wrote: > all I know is that there is a rails project > <http://rubyforge.org/projects/rtrails/> which implements something > Comet-like (with an additional server for the persistent connections). > What I have read somewhere is that Campfire does polling, but not sure > about that. > > On 3/9/06, *Jim Geurts* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, is there a plan to support Comet (name coined > by the dojo guys) w/ prototype? Comet represents persisting an http > connection for low latency data operations. It also represents a > nice alternative to polling. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > <mailto:Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs > > > > > > -- > Roberto Saccon - http://rsaccon.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs The information transmitted in this electronic mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
