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Re:<Blink> and <Marquee> (2020) by vanviegen on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:31AM (#44215312)
I managed to get real-time chat (and other real-time colab) working on IE4+ using long polling, by continuously adding <script> tags from JavaScript. The server would delay answering until there were new messages available, or some timeout. This was even before xmlhttprequest. Who needs websocket? :-)
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Re:<Blink> and <Marquee> (2020) by distances on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:49AM (#44215398)
Sounds fancy! My solution back then was infinitely auto-updating a frame with a meta refresh tag. It would receive a new <script> block that would update the contents of other frames. This of course wouldn't give real-time functionality.
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Re:<Blink> and <Marquee> (2020) by pixl97 on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:53PM (#44219716)
Fun, until you had dial up so slow the refresh happened again before anything on the page fully loaded (mostly an issue with images)
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