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This and fact IE/Opera do not have websocket implemented, makes me come back to good old Flash technology See socket.io for something even better.

• joering2 14y ago
  I did. My understanding is that socket.io requires Websocket server, which I am unable to build at this moment. I spent some time researching into phpWebsocket until it turned out that the project has not been updated for about 2 yars now.
  • ehsanu1 14y ago
    Sorry I didn't read your comment properly. If nothing else works, maybe you can develop with a Linux VM with a platform that already has a good websocket server (say, node.js), and host on any VPS. Good luck.
  • ajross 14y ago
    So you want to use new software like WebSockets without ... using new software like WebSockets? There's no free lunch here, new transport architectures require new application architectures. If you aren't able to modify your backend then you can't do WebSockets. Certainly Socket.io is a very simple (surprisingly so, even) implementation of a JSON-based event architecture on top of WebSockets, with integrated fallbacks to other transports on older browsers. But it requires node.js on the server side (though to be fair: it's protocol is very simple and could be reimplemented without too much trouble if you only wanted the client-side fallback stuff).