There's an experimental alternative to WebSockets called Socket.IO that has been added to WiaB. To enable it add "--use_socketio=true" to the server command line. In Chrome and FF4 WebSockets will still be sued, but in non-websocket browsers an alternative will be used (either Flash based sockets or a comet method such as long polling).
-Tad On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Perry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gang, > > I've been distracted the past few weeks at work. I'm curious about > Firefox. I've seen talk on other threads that FF 3 doesn't work with WAIB. > Is making FF 3 work a hugh problem? I'm hoping to deploy a WAIB inside > work to help us collaborate and share. I've already pushed them into using > FF for my other tools. I don't think I can push them into Chrome or Safari. > Maybe FF 4 -- maybe. These are all PC users mostly using IE by default so > getting them to change is hard. Getting them to collaborate so far has been > extremely hard. I'm hoping when I finally introduce Wave to them, it is a > super easy pleasant first experience. I'm just trying to size up what is > ahead of me. Just a 50,000 foot view is fine. > > Thank you -- I hope to contribute more. > > Perry > > On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:01 AM, John Poole wrote: > > > FYI. > > > > I'm really delighted to witness what progress has been made in the > > last few weeks to bring code to the open source. Bravo! > > > > To that end, I've posted on the Gentoo forum a flyer: > > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6475119.html#6475119 > > > > I do not anticipate a lot of interest as the Gentoo community seems to > > be more outside of the corporate environment, e.g. gamers, home users, > > but Wave would certainly be another jewel in the corporate Gentoo > > advocate's arsenal. > > > > I just built version 629 in minutes on another Gentoo server -- it's > > looking good, and Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 actually started showing waves. > > -- > > John L. Poole > > > > P.O. Box 6566 > > Napa, CA 94581-6566 > > 707-812-1323 > > > > [email protected] > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" 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/wave-protocol?hl=en.
