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On 11/24/2010 11:42 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:michael.vancanneyt@wisa.be">michael.vancanneyt@wisa.be</a> wrote:
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I tried making moderatly complicated production applications with
it. It cannot be done without redesigning ExtPascal from the
ground up.
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Same here, That is why I only recommended it as a way to try out
ExtJS.<br>
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Comet is a rickety technology. Not robust at all, and creates more
problems
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than it solves. You can use polling, but that's just plain HTTP,
not even
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worth of putting a name on it.
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I suppose a problem of Comet's is that it needs cooperation of the
web server, allowing for an appropriate number of simultaneous
"hanging" requests. In fact the necessity of using such
questionable technology as a workaround for the missing server event
transport is a design flow of the abysmal http protocol which never
was intended for but needs to be abused for this kind of
applications due to the incompetence of most IT departments that are
not able to decently configure the firewalls. <br>
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I wonder what technology Silverlight/Moonlight uses for this
purpose. Could this be a hint for an upcoming "HTML" Widget Type ? <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Of course TTimer and an Inter Thread event
Queue would be needed to be implemented within the new Widget
Type (for Linux use similar as in the FPGUI Widget Type or as in
MSEGUI).
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Hehe, I was waiting for you to bring this one up. Never fails :-)
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<u>_Of course_</u>. It can't be repeated often enough <span
class="moz-smiley-s6"><span> :-[ </span></span><span
class="moz-smiley-s3"><span> ;-) </span></span>Maybe some day
it helps....<br>
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-Michael<br>
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