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if we keep the HTTP connection open indefinitely, we can dynamically update the page from the server, without any JavaScript!
Isn’t that what chatrooms did back in the 1990s? I’m 90% sure that’s how they did it back then
Yeah he has rediscovered long polling.
Setting aside the fact that WebSockets are a well-defined mechanism for maintaining a persistent long-running connection to a web server…
This is how .NET Blazor works (for one of its modes), where all rendering and processing is done server-side, and the client just has a small JS/WASM bundle that posts updates to the DOM, and sends DOM events to the server. And it’s ASS.
