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Re:Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating by xirium on Friday February 08, 2008 @09:01PM (#112477)
I can see the benefit of Comet in this case but I don't see the benefit of Flash. Please could you explain.
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Re:Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating by chaostheory on Friday February 08, 2008 @10:08PM (#112519)
I thought like Comet, Flash can send data asynchronously. the client doesn't have to continually poll the server. Am I wrong?
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Re:Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating by tyler on Saturday February 09, 2008 @01:10AM (#112584)
Yep. Thats correct. Although, at the last point I looked into it, there were some firewall-related problems with using Flash for that purpose. I don't remember the details though...
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