Campfire, to this day, still uses a 3-second poll. And chat was supposed to be the poster-boy example for web sockets and friends. Ha.
@steveklabnik @dhh I did a talk on my Campfire bot and had Campfire and the terminal side-by-side to show Campfire was causing the latency
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@bascule@steveklabnik@dhh campfire is notably slow. but http already supports streaming, what do I need a push for? -
@konstantinhaase@steveklabnik@dhh server-sent events are pretty awesome, although they don't yet have widespread browser support -
@bascule@steveklabnik@dhh I think it depends on how you define widespread. also, they degrade to polling pretty well.
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