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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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Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
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