Comments on: Comet is coming

By: Ernesto Ruy Sanchez

Ernesto Ruy Sanchez — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:11:52 +0000

I’ve seen COMET in action for quiete some time in Mibbit. An AJAX IRC client, take a look at it here http://www.mibbit.com.

By: Jani Hartikainen

Jani Hartikainen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:54:05 +0000

It’s downloadable from http://widgets.opera.com/widget/5988/ though it seems it doesn’t work 100% correctly in latest Opera versions (The implementation for canvas has changed a bit I think), and the online server died and was lost completely when my home-server’s HDD crashed.

By: Eran Galperin

Eran Galperin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:42:19 +0000

The most interesting aspect to me is the possible matching of clients directly (P2P) – that will reduce so much load from servers today for multi-user environment and open up a whole new range of possible uses.

That tank game sounds interesting, any chance it’s available as open-source?

By: Jani Hartikainen

Jani Hartikainen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:54:06 +0000

Yep, it’s going to be interesting to see what people can come up with when Server-Sent Events is widely adopted.

Opera has already supported SSE since 9.something, and I’ve actually written a full client-server type of solution using it for a JavaScript based tank game. I wrote the server in Python and the game used XMLHttpRequest to send data and SSE to receive.

By: Eran Galperin

Eran Galperin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:39:33 +0000

One can only hope!

By: Michael Carter

Michael Carter — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:18:21 +0000

Its worth noting that the HTML5 draft need not be standardized for browser vendors to start implementing the features. This has been the case for a number of features already, and I expect it to be similar for WebSocket. Before the year is out we may very well see implementations in the development branches of major browsers.