Simon Willison’s Weblog

$.comet (via) The first Comet (with Bayeux) plugin I’ve seen for jQuery—currently only handles long-polling over XMLHttpRequest, but still a promising start.

# 9th January 2008, 8:31 am / ajax, bayeux, comet, javascript, jquery, long-polling

Why we switched to Jetty. Zimbra (recently acquired by Yahoo!) are using Jetty for Comet. It sounds like they are using Bayeux as well.

# 8th January 2008, 5:12 am / ajax, bayeux, comet, java, javascript, jetty, yahoo, zimbra

The Future of Comet: Part 1, Comet Today. Absolutely the best summary I’ve seen of all of the current Comet techniques in one place.

# 11th December 2007, 1:13 pm / ajax, comet, iframes, jacob-rus, javascript, long-polling, xmlhttprequest

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

# 16th November 2007, 1:19 am / ajax, comet, javascript, safari, safari3, webkit, xmlhttprequest

Comet Daily. New regularly updated site covering Comet, the Ajax-like umbrella term for JavaScript server-push techniques. Already a bunch of great stuff on there.

# 7th November 2007, 10:53 am / ajax, comet, cometdaily, javascript