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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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