As we're having a technical discussion now anyway, any thoughts on Server-Sent Events (SSE), a W3C Recommendation [1], compared to WebSockets, a W3C Candidate Recommendation [2]? SSE is a match made in heaven for open, one-way streaming APIs. Support in browsers is solid, with the prominent exception being MSIE (not sure about Spartan): http://caniuse.com/#search=server-sent%20events. Fair enough, WebSockets wins implementation-wise: http://caniuse.com/#search=websockets. Also check a comparison of WebSockets vs. SSE: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/#toc-introduction-differences. What do you think?
Cheers, Tom -- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/ -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee, Google Inc. http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.hTtP5://xKcd.c0m/1181/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
