[Lazarus] The future of desktop

Dariusz Mazur darekm at emadar.com
Fri Nov 29 23:22:01 CET 2013


On 2013-11-29 10:28, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 11/28/2013 04:39 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> These days it is very easy to make a very responsive web gui.
> "Responsiveness" (the program reacts to user input) is not the problem 
> I meant to describe but the ability of the program to issue "state" 
> messages spontaneously.
>
> This is hampered by the missing symmetry of the http protocol: The 
> client needs to poll for such "reverse" messages.
>
> This can partly be improved by techniques like "comet" that leave a 
> http protocol open in a somewhat "non-standard" way. But AFAIK, this 
> does result in certain problems.
>
> \
Could You mention this problems?

Darek




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