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Re:WebSockets and Comet on the iPhone by nemoel on Friday July 16, 2010 @02:04PM (#1521920)
That's such a clever code maccman. Very impressive way to get around Apple's decision to disable WebSockets...

I am already using the gmail widget and its proved to be so useful. I am very pleased that I can now sync it to a mobile platform.

Keep up the good work.

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Re:WebSockets and Comet on the iPhone by drivebyacct2 on Friday July 16, 2010 @02:51PM (#1522107)
Not that it's not cool and all, but long polling ajax is ancient tech, not really anything new or innovative.
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Re:WebSockets and Comet on the iPhone by maccman on Friday July 16, 2010 @04:05PM (#1522345)
True, it is fairly ancient. However, the beauty is in the implementation - i.e. emulating the WebSocket API and using the same endpoint.
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