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between this and liveview... and the infinity websites doing timed or pull-check reloads...

is this the best the web have to offer in terms of standards to keep one tab with fresh content? i recall some push standard discussions

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There’s also Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace, though last I checked it had the downsides of (a) only working in Firefox and (b) causing the loading spinner to run forever.

I assume WebSockets is probably the preferred way so all the other proposals fell on their face. This one seems to be using WS as well.

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