Real-time updates without JavaScript

Re:Real-time updates without JavaScript by netgusto on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:02PM (#16319607)

I guess this works by keeping the connexion alive and streaming packets of data, taking advantage of the browsers capacity to render HTML before the whole source is actually loaded.

OP?

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Re:Real-time updates without JavaScript by wybiral on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:07PM (#16319681)

Correct. It's a small Golang server that keeps the connection alive with chunked transfer encoding. From the browser's perspective it's like a really slowly loading page.

The connection count is updated by sending some inline CSS ::before content changes.

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