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by wmf 5181 days ago
AJAX is where you click on something and then the page updates. Comet is where the page updates without the user having to initiate anything.
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pork 5181 days ago
Fascinating...so wrapping an Ajax call inside a window.setInterval automatically switches it to "Comet"?
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udp 5181 days ago
Source?
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