good news! On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Janko Mivšek wrote:
Dear Smalltalkers,
Past few days I worked on WebSocket implementation in Swazoo Smalltalk web server [1], in coordination with Philippe Marschall from Seaside [4] and Nicolas Petton from Iliad [5] devteams, so together with me from Aida/Web [3] our cooperation ensures that this implementation is ready to be adapted for all three main web frameworks.
Why WebSocket? Because it will replace current Comet hacks to enable a bidirectional messaging between browser and web application, specially for web app to send something back to the browser without waiting for user to click something. Read a bit more about WebSocket here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/
WebSocket as browser supported technology enables opening an always present channel, so that web app can send commands like update some element of the webpage at any time. That's why WebSocket is ideal for so called "real-time" web.
You are invited to look at the code for Squeak/Pharo as Swazoo2.3beta1.1 at http://www.squeaksource.org/Swazoo.html
A bit more about WebSocket in Swazoo:
http://www.swazoo.org/websocket
Best regards Janko Swazoo maintainer
[1] Swazoo WebSocket support http://www.swazoo.org/websocket [2] Introducing WebSockets http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/ [3] Aida/Web http://www.aidaweb.si [4] Seaside http://www.seaside.st [5] Iliad http://www.iliadproject.org