Yes, replacing the monster that is comet/longpolling with something sane is indeed a worthy goal. But I also agree, this is not the solution. For the simple re

Yes, replacing the monster that is comet/longpolling with something sane is indeed a worthy goal. But I also agree, this is not the solution. For the simple reason because it won't work over standard proxy servers and I don't see the trillions of proxy servers currently in use being updated to support this any time soon...