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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) I don't think I've ever seen so many warnings on a single Wik

by tybris 17y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) I don't think I've ever seen so many warnings on a single Wikipedia article. To be honest, the ridiculous ways in which you have to implement trivial network applications on the Web sometimes makes me think whether the Web may have severely slowed down technological progress. People are still building IRC, usenet, FTP and e-mail, but this time in the stupid way.

thwarted 17y ago
That, and how everything ends up needing to be tunneled through port 80 and speak HTTP (for proxies) to work because of draconian firewall rules.
ubernostrum 17y ago
I remember when the controversy first flared up there. Basically, there's one Wikipedia user who has an axe to grind against a particular publication, and parlayed that into the whole slew of nasty warnings you see now. I actually tried to take part in the discussion for a little while, but gave up when it was clear that the dude was just pursuing some personal dislike of a source rather than any real questions about the reliability of information.
indiejade 17y ago
This is not an interesting post. The OP on Leah Culver's site is one of the most ridiculously obvious things ever written on the web; a "definition" of AJAX? Really? She offers no insightful commentary (linking to Wikipedia). Every post on her blog is a cleverly (but not that cleverly) disguised self-promotional stunt. I've never seen somebody on the web so obsessed with herself. Who, exactly, does she think her audience is? A bunch of Diggers? If somebody wanted to post about the "Comet" PL to YCN, they could have just posted the link to the Wikipedia article and started a discussion about that.
- blasdel 17y ago
  Who, exactly, does she think her audience is? A bunch of Diggers? Bingo. I prefer a more pejorative nomenclature: Digg users are Duggalos

by tybris 17y ago

thwarted 17y ago

That, and how everything ends up needing to be tunneled through port 80 and speak HTTP (for proxies) to work because of draconian firewall rules.

ubernostrum 17y ago

I remember when the controversy first flared up there. Basically, there's one Wikipedia user who has an axe to grind against a particular publication, and parlayed that into the whole slew of nasty warnings you see now. I actually tried to take part in the discussion for a little while, but gave up when it was clear that the dude was just pursuing some personal dislike of a source rather than any real questions about the reliability of information.

indiejade 17y ago

This is not an interesting post. The OP on Leah Culver's site is one of the most ridiculously obvious things ever written on the web; a "definition" of AJAX? Really? She offers no insightful commentary (linking to Wikipedia). Every post on her blog is a cleverly (but not that cleverly) disguised self-promotional stunt. I've never seen somebody on the web so obsessed with herself. Who, exactly, does she think her audience is? A bunch of Diggers? If somebody wanted to post about the "Comet" PL to YCN, they could have just posted the link to the Wikipedia article and started a discussion about that.

blasdel 17y ago
Who, exactly, does she think her audience is? A bunch of Diggers? Bingo. I prefer a more pejorative nomenclature: Digg users are Duggalos