[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 lacks Ajax capability?

[Benji York]

Balazs Ree wrote:
> However there is nothing that would keep away a server to be "aware" of
> currently open pages and be able to send notifications to them. This would
> also require server support for registering open connections. This pattern
> might even turn out to be so useful, that we will see it generally
> supported in five years from now.
> 
> On the other hand the same functionality can also be accomplished by
> "traditional" AJAX polling. So at the moment, when talking about AJAX, one
> usually speaks of the currently implementable "server pull"
> approach. 

Something I'd like to play with would be an integration of Zope 3 events 
and MochiKit's signals.  Perhaps queuing events on the server and the 
client could periodically retrieve them.  The client could also queue 
events or send them immediately to the server.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation