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by drivebyacct2 5817 days ago
Not that it's not cool and all, but long polling ajax is ancient tech, not really anything new or innovative.
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maccman 5817 days ago
True, it is fairly ancient. However, the beauty is in the implementation - i.e. emulating the WebSocket API and using the same endpoint.
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