Category Archives: comet

DWR Joins The Dojo Foundation, Joe Walker Joins SitePen

December 11, 2007 – 1:25 pm

Dylan has the short-and-sweet writeup of what’s happening with DWR and the Dojo Foundation and Joe Walker has a bit more Q&A. I can’t really add much to the “news” bit of the news other than to say that I’m tremendously excited about it. The DWR community has been amazingly level-headed in its deliberations, and [...]

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Comet Daily Is Live!

November 7, 2007 – 2:03 am

The new Comet Daily blog (to which I will be a contributor) is finally live, and already they are doing a better job than I ever have at explaining the value of Comet for building low-latency interactions. Greg Wilkins has an excellent post outlining the load and latency benefits of going with a Comet server [...]

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The Browser.Next List

September 12, 2007 – 5:30 pm

Thanks to the Ajaxian’s for linking my last post on the topic of what we need from IE. As I’ve been responding to the comments, it occured to me that it’s not quite fair to poke IE in the eye when there are issues (like WYSIWYG) where we need the help of all the browser [...]

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Bits and Peices

January 8, 2007 – 2:59 pm

As things ramp up for the Comet Developer Day and the Dojo Developer Day(s), there’s been a ton of activity in Dojo-land. Here’s a selected sample: SitePen begins to offer Dojo Training to the public! Signup here. Since we employ a huge percentage of the committer base and fund significant new development on the toolkit [...]

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Adventures In Comet and Multipart Mime

December 21, 2006 – 3:20 pm

The Dojo Bayeux client implements a bunch of different “transports” and tries to pick the right one based on what the browser can support, the cross-domain requirements, and so forth. What follows is one of those stories that makes people assume that I’m crazy to do what I do for a living. They might be right.

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