sfphotoarts

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October 14, 2008 (17y ago)
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  1. Alternative presentation as a webpage

  2. Forget it

  3. The website isn't easy to navigate using an iPad, the comments link is too small as as the voting arrows. I am considering building (assuming the data is freely available for such an endeavor) either a different…

  4. iPad app

  5. XMLSocket or Ajax Polling

  6. XMLSocket - XML messages are sent over a full-duplex TCP/IP stream socket connection, low latency, requires Flash, possibly firewall/proxy issues. Performance limited to chat traffic only.

  7. Ajax Polling - Easy to implement, performance/scalability linearly proportional to chat users; multiple empty requests, firewall and proxy proof.