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Re:ReverseHttp by tptacek on Monday March 09, 2009 @08:56AM (#508315)
I remember almost exactly the opposite about AJAX (when the paper came out, not when the XmlHttpRequest object was introduced) --- people went ape about what they could use it for. AJAX style genuinely made new things possible. This (supposedly) just makes them cleaner.
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Re:ReverseHttp by DomesticMouse on Monday March 09, 2009 @05:07PM (#509060)
Are you questioning the relative merit of reverse http, or of the ability of the server to update the page?

I'm failing to see the advantage of reverse http over long polls, even though I am completely sold on the difference that having server push would make...

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Re:ReverseHttp by tptacek on Monday March 09, 2009 @05:51PM (#509125)
The relative merit.
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