[Seaside] push-model of interactive web pages

[Wilkes Joiner]

On 3/16/06, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Google is using a nice technique for their Google Talk integration in
> Gmail: they send out a request to a file of virtually infinite size
> that is empty and only sent very slowly, just so that it doesn't
> time-out. Now they can simply push JavaScript code into that stream
> that will be immediately execute on the client. No need of polling or
> other dirty tricks, just a plain http request. It would be cool to
> have something like that in Seaside as well ;-)

That sounds very interesting.  I would love to see an implementation of that.

- Wilkes