Well, one approach would be to treat HTTP as an unreliable/stateless channel, implement stateful, connection-oriented sessions on top of that, and then have VOS (both on the server side and in the browser) run on that layer. So then it would easy to push updates to the browser by queuing messages until the next time the browser checks in.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:39:06AM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: > Yeah, this is why I was looking for libraries out there that address > these things (so we wouldn't have to). So far I'm only aware of comet > and dojo (dojotoolkit.com) (the client side). > > Probably the best thing is to focus on just updating HTML in the > browser. So if the browser opens that persistent, listening channel, > then Hypervos can listen to the Vobjcets on its behalf, and if it e.g. > sees a child-inserted and the new object is HTML/XML, and it also has > an open connection to a listening web browser, to serialize the new > objects into an HTML fragment and push that to the browser. > Similar for anything changing in the objects or something removed. > stick the new or changed HTML into the DOM (set innerHTML or something). > > Anyway, I'm just trying to gather ideas for future web applications, I > probably can't work on this right away-- but if you want to that would > be great, let me know and we can coordinate. I've been gathering these > ideas at http://interreality.org/wiki/HyperVosIdeas . Part of my > motivation has been searching for a good web application focused on > Question and Answer customer support, as well as general forum > discussion. -- [ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet] [ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ] [ http://interreality.org/~tetron ][ pgpkey: pgpkeys.mit.edu 18C21DF7 ]
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