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Even in the AJAX timeframe, there was still a way to do async push style interaction from server to client. See Comet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28pro

by svas 12y ago

Even in the AJAX timeframe, there was still a way to do async push style interaction from server to client. See Comet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29 Gmail used this technique via a hidden iframe.

saurik 12y ago
Yeah; I had done this sort of stuff in 1998 using a custom HTTP server I wrote in VBScript.
est 12y ago
On IE they used ActiveXObject called "htmlfile"