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I’m thinking about how limiting it is for AJAX apps to have to poll for updates, when what would be ideal is for javascript to be able to set up a real two way connection to the server. I’m wondering if there is some method of integrating javascript with a browser plugin that can make a tcp connection so that I could pass data into and out of the browser plugin.
Here is an implementation with a similar approach:
It uses a Java Applet and bridges its API to JavaScript, interesting…
And here another one:
This one is a wrapper of the Actionscript 3 Socket API, bridged to JavaScript…