Web Sockets in HTML 5 might solve the http pull problem once and for all

Gotta hope that the reality will be as potent as the "hope" - since ubiquity of implementation of HTML5 may once again tax our patience. [If only all browsers updated as smoothly as FF (imho).]

I've also got to hope, along with commenter to the blog: "hope it won’t involve the same amount of oddities between browsers, as for example XmlHttpRequest does."