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Ajax is merely a client JS interface to HTTP. A protocol that already exist. It's not a protocol being imposed on web servers. When you want to impose a new pr
by halayli 14y ago
Ajax is merely a client JS interface to HTTP. A protocol that already exist. It's not a protocol being imposed on web servers.
When you want to impose a new protocol on web servers and browsers, it better not be to solve push notifications only. And that's what SPDY did.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoWebSocket isn't just to solve push notifications. It's also for realtime communication, for example chat or multiplayer games. We do have server-sent updates if you just want push notifications.
- halayli 14y agoyes, without compression. Everything you said is covered in SPDY. But SPDY takes a step further and improves the current state of HTTP as well to better transfer documents.