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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: long-polling</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/long-polling.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-02-03T00:37:34+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Comet (long polling) for all browsers using ScriptCommunicator</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/3/scriptcommunicator/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-02-03T00:37:34+00:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T00:37:34+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/3/scriptcommunicator/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://amix.dk/blog/post/19489#ScriptCommunicator-implementing-comet-long-polling-for-all-browse"&gt;Comet (long polling) for all browsers using ScriptCommunicator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
More Comet from the Plurk team: 80 lines of dependency free JavaScript implementing long polling using script tags (hence working cross-domain) across IE6+, Firefox, WebKit and Opera. The clever bit is the code to detect loading errors. It doesn’t try to fix the infinite loading indicator problem—is that still a cromulent usability concern?


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet"&gt;comet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/long-polling"&gt;long-polling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/plurk"&gt;plurk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/usability"&gt;usability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="comet"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="long-polling"/><category term="plurk"/><category term="usability"/></entry><entry><title>$.comet</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/9/comet/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-01-09T08:31:22+00:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T08:31:22+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/9/comet/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://morglog.alleycatracing.com/wordpress/?p=20"&gt;$.comet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The first Comet (with Bayeux) plugin I’ve seen for jQuery—currently only handles long-polling over XMLHttpRequest, but still a promising start.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://cometdaily.com/2008/01/08/bayeux-for-jquery/"&gt;Comet Daily&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ajax"&gt;ajax&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bayeux"&gt;bayeux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet"&gt;comet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jquery"&gt;jquery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/long-polling"&gt;long-polling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="ajax"/><category term="bayeux"/><category term="comet"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="jquery"/><category term="long-polling"/></entry><entry><title>The Future of Comet: Part 1, Comet Today</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/11/comet/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-12-11T13:13:11+00:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T13:13:11+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/11/comet/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://cometdaily.com/2007/12/11/the-future-of-comet-part-1-comet-today/"&gt;The Future of Comet: Part 1, Comet Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Absolutely the best summary I’ve seen of all of the current Comet techniques in one place.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ajax"&gt;ajax&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet"&gt;comet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iframes"&gt;iframes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jacob-rus"&gt;jacob-rus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/long-polling"&gt;long-polling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xmlhttprequest"&gt;xmlhttprequest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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