Re:Humble Bundle #3 is Live
by AdamTReineke on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @03:22PM
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They're constantly requesting a JSON file about once a second. Example contents, formatted: http://pastebin.com/uMv7d8xS
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Seems like excessive transfers. I achieved a "real time" counter by having requests return a start value and a rate of change per second. The GUI would then update every second with the estimated values. My AJAX requests would happen much less often and update the start and rate of change.