Thanks for the speedy reply! I've looked over the links you sent. the first two didn't work for me on my browser. I'm on a a mac and used the default browser.
Will having a web socket open 24/7 slow down my website? My knowledge of web sockets is limited at the moment On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 6:52:05 PM UTC-5, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 3:32:54 PM UTC-7, Jaimee S wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> My website allows users to send messages to one another; however, the >> only way to see their new messages is to refresh the page. Is there any way >> to notify the user via any method? >> >> Thanks for your time >> > > > There are 2 mechanism in HTML5, I believe, but I'm only going to point you > at one for the moment: Web Workers. > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/javascript/working-with-web-workers-in-html5-powered-web-pages.html > > > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/HTML5/client/introduction-to-html5-web-workers-the-javascript-multi-threading-approach.html > > > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/other/html5-tech-shared-web-workers-help-spread-the-news.html > > > > With this mechanism, you'd spawn a web worker to do jquery/ajax to check > when it was time to replace the content. A couple of the examples > calculate Pi, and paste the results into the main page. > > There is also web sockets in HTML5. > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/tutorials/making-html5-websockets-work.html > > > Gluon/contrib has websocket_messaging.py. > > I thought I remembered an HTML5 server push mechanisms for notifications, > but if it's there I'm not looking in the right place. > > /dps > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
