June 2010
Beginner
320 pages
9h 37m
English
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Chapter 4. River of Content
The previous chapter talked about dynamically updating your home page to show the latest updates long after the page had been loaded. The examples used many of the same technologies most web developers have used for years. Although this works well for some things, it has limitations that quickly become clear. If you want to give your users a truly realtime experience in the web browser, you need to push content to them. In this chapter, I’ll show you how to build a simple river of content feed. The most obvious use for this would be for a truly realtime live blog application.
During big events, many blogs will provide a link to a separate page where they will “liveblog” the whole thing. They’ll post quick text updates, “this new product could save the company, too bad it doesn’t support bluetooth.” They’ll also post images as quickly as they can take them. However, the pages serving these “live” blogs tend to be nothing more than a regular web page that automatically refreshes every 30 seconds. Users will often refresh their browser by hand to ensure they’re seeing the latest content. Getting your content to users faster, even if it’s just a couple of seconds, can mean the difference between users staying on your site all day and leaving as soon as they feel they’re getting old news.
Using a liveblog as an example, I’ll show you how to build a river of content that pushes out updates as soon as they are available. This will help keep users from clicking ...
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