Alternative to Polling. HTML Updates

html ajax polling

Either use long polling for it to work in older browsers, or start reading up on eventSource:

Nice article by Nicholas Zakas:

html ajax polling

Well im starting to use Websockets (see some of my previous questions) and they are cool to use instead of ajax :-D

html ajax polling

Generally no, but there is a family of techniques that simulate such an effect.

Look into comet if you'd like to give it a shot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

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