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.
@konstantinhaase @steveklabnik @dhh server-sent events are pretty awesome, although they don't yet have widespread browser support
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@bascule@steveklabnik@dhh thanks to the ever changing websockets spec they have way more availability than websockets and are super simpleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bascule@steveklabnik@dhh I think it depends on how you define widespread. also, they degrade to polling pretty well.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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