37Signals’ Campfire isn’t a very new idea, actually its very old. I don’t find the product very interesting yet but I am intrigued by how it manages to continuously poll the server for every 3 seconds for i don’t know how many chatrooms and not throw the server into a steaming frenzy.
After some googling (verb) here are some articles that give a bit of insight:
I see the benefits of HTTP Streaming but during that whole time the browser thinks its refreshing and the browser throbber is active. I don’t like that. Its there a middle of the road between HTTP Streaming and polling? Maybe let the server controll the polling times?
