Ajax Seminar : Part 5
Soundbite from David H-H : “Rails - it makes work suck less.”
Good talk, and some very interesting stuff about using a 1K Flash ‘movie’ (no longer the right word) to act as a socket-based communication system, enabling push. Flash is available on more clients than Ajax.
Campfire uses HTTP polling instead, apparently, because of percieved server load issues - but they’ve since discovered that a (unspecified) modern OS can keep tens of thousands of sockets open at once.