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Comet in IE6? Can you elaborate a bit? I recently had a need for a comet thingy (but not cross-browser compatibility) - so I made a small solution with x-mixed-replace. I don't even know where would I start with IE6, since even later versions are their own world.

Comet has worked since the old netscape days, it just wasn't called "comet" back then. Long polling works fine in IE6.

Long polling is possible in every browser ever, basically.

In my case, it was less intermittent events and more low-latency streaming data (position/GIS stuff), so I went with the forever frame. It really is splendid for pushing data to the browser without the nasty lag.

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