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by yunyu 3300 days ago
Most applications use SockJS or Socket/Engine.io instead of raw websockets, so you get the latency benefits when websockets are supported while still functioning (probably better than AJAX on a timeout with long polling) when they're not. I know your old architecture was simpler, but fetching periodically from a server is high-latency and bandwidth inefficient.