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Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Thu, 16 April 2009 18:56 UTC

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> It is obvious that the websockets design is heavily influenced by the 
> use case of a relatively inexperienced web programmer programming 
> directly against the API. Therefore, I would greatly appreciate an 
> answer to the question of how *precisely* that would work. If the 
> requirement to be directly implementable by inexperienced programmers is 
> key to the design, then please describe how this happens in your 
> proposed design?

I haven't ignored this e-mail, I just can't send out a reply to it in 
three minutes, and have a couple of tasks I need to get done ASAP. I 
intend to reply to this e-mail and a number of others later this week or 
early next week.

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