Chat Room In 10 Lines of JavaScript

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I love all the stuff coming out in the Javascript world lately, especially things making comet-style coding easier. That said, seeing last week's chatroom in 15 loc and this week's chatroom in 10 lines kinda reminds me of the "5 minute abs" infomercials. I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out? :)

In seriousness, I'd love to see a comparison between this and now.js and some of the others.

> I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out?

Does "<iframe src='http://www.pubnub.com/blog/build-real-time-web-apps-easy>... count?

10 lines of javascript..so long as you include these other several hundred lines from a library.

It's cool that you can work this way with the PubNub library--but on the web, where all of the code needed actually has to be downloaded by the client, it's completely disingenuous.

Not completely. It does save me from writing the other hundreds of lines, which is more what they mean than a chatroom in 10 loc total.

Anything that staves the onset of carpal tunnel for us hackers a little longer is a good deal to me :)

As I stated, I think it's great that you can use the library to help you do this; but the truth is, to use this chat program, clients have to download and execute far more than 10 lines of code.

You don't escape html entities, you can easily have fun inverting text with the mirroring character ‮

@lux ...curious...do you have a link to last weeks 'chat room n 15 loc'?

I believe it was for these guys:

http://nowjs.com/

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005

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