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by dreamdu5t 5181 days ago
We should use the term "auto-synchronizing" insteaf of real-time
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webjprgm 5181 days ago
You know those journalist pages where they report what's happening at an event with immediate updates? It's called "live updating". Why don't we use that term? TV news stations say "LIVE" when it's current events happening now. "Real time" as used for this Ajax technique means that the page is auto-updating with events happening now. That's "live". Any seconders?
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geoffschmidt 5181 days ago
In fact, in Meteor, the relevant packages are called "livedata" and "liveui".

In the docs, Meteor usually tries to use the word "reactive" or sometimes "automatic," thought "realtime" does seem to have slipped in in some places.

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