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Doesn't seem as big a change as what Ajax was back when. Before Ajax there was no async interaction from the browser to the webserver. SSE is just another way

Doesn't seem as big a change as what Ajax was back when. Before Ajax there was no async interaction from the browser to the webserver. SSE is just another way to do async, except it's now push instead of pull...

svas 13y ago
Even in the AJAX timeframe, there was still a way to do async push style interaction from server to client. See Comet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29 Gmail used this technique via a hidden iframe.
- saurik 13y ago
  Yeah; I had done this sort of stuff in 1998 using a custom HTTP server I wrote in VBScript.
- est 13y ago
  On IE they used ActiveXObject called "htmlfile"