Yes, we use server polling as well. But the ability to push is certainly a normal evolution, and I expect that a technology will provide this.
Deco On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:21 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: > > Hi Deco, > > On 11/30/06, Deco Rior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Also not sure how this plays out, but support for Comet would be one >> thing that I would be looking at. I am not sure how much overlap >> there might be but I would research it. > > I had a look at Comet when some of the earlier Dojo articles came out. > It looked like it had quite a few problems. The 37Signals campfire web > chat application uses server polling every three seconds instead of > Comet. DHH presented something called Armageddon that used real Flash > sockets for server push. I think he decided against using this because > polling was sufficient. > > I think that something like Comet probably wouldn't be a core part of > Fork. I am thinking about a way to release extensions to Fork that sit > on top if that happens. Kind of like Scriptaculous on Prototype. This > way people could contribute new features but they wouldn't go into > Fork core until they have been proven and belong in core. Much like > Rails plugins are a proving ground now. > >> P.S. Should this get off the rails list ASAP? > > If you like . . . > > http://groups.google.com/group/forkjavascript > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
