I understand that right now people just want some way to make pages update with minimum fuss, but when you start talking about extending HTTP (even more), that

I understand that right now people just want some way to make pages update with minimum fuss, but when you start talking about extending HTTP (even more), that automatically brings up the question of whether you're solving the wrong problem. > What's the best way to do pub/sub on the Web? I think it's the wrong question. Or at least it will become the wrong question at some point. Should we be pushing for web technologies even when we need communication models that the Web clearly was not designed for? After having used NATS for some things, web services, web sockets and all other related stuff feels archaic and byzantine. Too much ducktape on top of a very simple, but limited idea of hyperlinked documents.