Is SSE in 2014 what Ajax was in 2005?

Re:Is SSE in 2014 what Ajax was in 2005? by foobarian on Saturday April 05, 2014 @10:26PM (#7539426)

Doesn't seem as big a change as what Ajax was back when. Before Ajax there was no async interaction from the browser to the webserver. SSE is just another way to do async, except it's now push instead of pull...

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Re:Is SSE in 2014 what Ajax was in 2005? by svas on Saturday April 05, 2014 @11:19PM (#7539549)

Even in the AJAX timeframe, there was still a way to do async push style interaction from server to client. See Comet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29

Gmail used this technique via a hidden iframe.

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Re:Is SSE in 2014 what Ajax was in 2005? by saurik on Sunday April 06, 2014 @01:02AM (#7539833)

Yeah; I had done this sort of stuff in 1998 using a custom HTTP server I wrote in VBScript.

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Re:Is SSE in 2014 what Ajax was in 2005? by est on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:26AM (#7540510)

On IE they used ActiveXObject called "htmlfile"

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