I'm trying to work on a dynamic chatting and notification on my site. For example, when you receive a new message on facebook, you don't need to reflesh the page, and it automatically appears the little red spot or the message appears right away when someone send it to you. I wonder whether they are using setTimeout() to execute a function every specific time and then load data to your page
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Not sure but they probably use some kind of listener, doubt they would use such a simple thing – juvian Mar 29 '14 at 02:10
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Check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19995/is-there-some-way-to-push-data-from-web-server-to-browser – random_user_name Mar 29 '14 at 02:14
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@cale_b link names the same technology I found on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4624448/how-to-make-notification-on-message-send-like-facebook?rq=1 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7696884/how-to-implement-facebook-like-notification-on-cakephp?rq=1 – juvian Mar 29 '14 at 02:15
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@juvian - so this is well documented, and this question isn't really new... – random_user_name Mar 29 '14 at 02:16
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Yup, doesn't seem he did much research but you never know – juvian Mar 29 '14 at 02:18
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@juvian, thanks a lot – Kesong Tse Mar 29 '14 at 02:33