As we're having a technical discussion now anyway, any thoughts on Server-Sent Events (SSE), a W3C Recommendation [1], compared to WebSockets, a W3C Candidate Recommendation [2]? SSE is a match made in heaven for open, one-way streaming APIs. Support in browsers is solid, with the prominent exception being MSIE (not sure about Spartan): http://caniuse.com/#search=server-sent%20events. Fair enough, WebSockets wins implementation-wise: http://caniuse.com/#search=websockets. Also check a comparison of WebSockets vs. SSE: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/#toc-introduction-.... What do you think?
Cheers, Tom
-- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/