Comment on An Introduction to Web SocketsparentComments−camwest15yOnce Firefox supports SSE I agree that it would be easier to implement in many use cases. Although it doesn't have the same sort of fallback mechanisms available to it that WebSockets have (ActionScript sockets).Here is some additional information about it that I found at stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5195452/websockets-vs-ser...−pornel15yYou can fall back to XHR with long polling — the stream is trivial to parse.
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Once Firefox supports SSE I agree that it would be easier to implement in many use cases. Although it doesn't have the same sort of fallback mechanisms available to it that WebSockets have (ActionScript sockets).
Here is some additional information about it that I found at stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5195452/websockets-vs-ser...
You can fall back to XHR with long polling — the stream is trivial to parse.