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16th November 2007 - Link Blog

Ten New Things in WebKit 3. Does “incremental updates for persistent server connections” for XMLHttpRequest mean Safari now has native support for Comet?

Posted 16th November 2007 at 1:19 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 16th November 2007.

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