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tokenizer on May 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE

...which delayed web socket development if you think about it. The need of real time applications would've forced the correct solution-websockets, but we already had a shaky solution... AJAX..

fanf2 on May 10, 2012 [–]

There was no demand for anything like websockets until everyone had years of experience with exploring the capabilities of AJAX.

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