On Mon, 11 May 2009, Greg Wilkins wrote: > > Consider google and who have the igoogle portal page which allows third > party gadgets to be plugged into the page. They also have a WS API that > those gadgets can currently make ajax requests to, when they do this, > the gadgets share the connection pool from the browser to the google > servers. > > If google started providing a comet API on their servers, then all of a > sudden, these 3rd party gadgets would each be having their own > connection and doing their own connection management. If we (Google) were to provide an API like this, we would provide an API that coallesced the messages into one stream. We wouldn't have each gadget opening up their own connection. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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