Comments on: Facebook Chat

By: nf

nf — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:10:58 +0000

@Mikolaj, some browsers (maybe only Firefox ATM) let you read (and write) raw image data from an image object, so it’s conceivable that you could send data down the pipe encoded as images and poll the image client-side for updates, decoding it back to (json encoded?) data. Ridiculous… but I’m tempted to try it.

By: Mikolaj Habryn

Mikolaj Habryn — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:44:51 +0000

Netscape and descendants supported an x-mixed-multipart-replace mime type on content, down which you could chunk an arbitrary number of messages, waiting arbitrary amounts of time between each. I have no idea how you’d get to it through DOM, but it made for great webcam…

By: Marc Lehmann

Marc Lehmann — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:17:04 +0000

immediacy is everything, you’re dead right. twitter seems to re-teach me that lesson every day. i guess facebook worked it out when they saw so much twitter conv happening through their platform. highlights the risks building apps for networks/platforms.