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Ten New Things in WebKit 3. Does “incremental updates for persistent server connections” for XMLHttpRequest mean Safari now has native support for Comet?

Posted 16th November 2007 at 1:19 am

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My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
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