Let me tell you a tale – a tale of magic and power. Ok, maybe there isn’t any real magic to this other than the magic described by Arthur Clarke in this quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” My reference to power is in the sense of what you as a third… Continue reading a tale of complexity
Category: Web Engineering
Server-Sent Events
One of the HTML5 features introduced that I have not needed until now is something called “server-sent events“. It’s a strange name which I think is derived from the HTTP content-type text/event-stream which must be set on the server side script generating the events. This isn’t quite the same as web push notifications which are… Continue reading Server-Sent Events