The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet

Event Summary
http://princecomet.eventbrite.com/

Moderator: Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at Large Financial

Panel:
Alex Russell, Google Engine & Past President of the Dojo Foundation
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Dylan Schiemann, co-founder of Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen
Michael Carter, Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
Greg Wilkins, Lead Developer of the Jetty


The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet was event covering Comet (aka Reverse AJAX). We also discussed topics such as HTML 5 and other future enhancements to the web. This event started with a general introduction to Comet, followed by an in depth panel discussion moderated by Kevin Nilson with panelist: Alex Russell, Michael Carter, Ted Goddard, Greg Wilkins, Dylan Schiemann.

What is Comet
AJAX became popular because it allowed the browser to make additional requests to web servers to update a page. One major limitation of AJAX is that the browser must initiate the request for data. Comet on the other hand allows the web server to push data to the browser at any time.

What is WebSocket
The HTML5 WebSocket standard defines the future of networking for browser applications, delivering full-duplex, bidirectional text-based communication between browsers and WebSocket servers. The WebSocket connection handshake leverages the HTTP standard to integrate with existing Web infrastructure, such as proxies, firewalls and load balancers, and then upgrades the wire protocol to remove the limitations of the HTTP request-response communication model. With WebSockets, browsers will be able to participate as first-class citizens in networked applications that are typically reserved for desktop clients, such as XMPP (Jabber) chat applications, as well as online gaming and financial trading applications.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• comet
• ajax
• orbited
• js.io
• html 5
• websockets
• servers
• protocol
• full-duplex
• bidirectional
• communication
• proxies
• firewall
• load balancers
• xmpp
• jabber
• online gaming
• google
• javascript
• morbidQ
• ICEsoft
• ICEfaces
• dojo
• sitepen
• jetty
• webtide

[fredchu]

nice COMET tech video

[vintageozarks]

I like to stretch my brain and this video does that.