[LINK] WebSockets

[Roger Clarke]

At 14:12 +0000 28/3/11, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Perhaps of interest .. HTML5 'WebSockets'
>If your browser supports WebSockets, the world market information
>at the bottom of the page will refresh every couple of seconds.
>New Protocol Turbocharges the Web: WebSockets lets the Web handle complex
>communications in real time.

A reinvention.  But will it be any better this time around?

Push technologies were all the rage in the mid-to-late 1990s, briefly:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/WillPay.html#Comm3

And tickertape apps were being deplored as early as March 1996:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1996/12/733

Okay, I accept there are always more suckers out there;  so there's 
room for this to have its days in the sun.


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