I am in the middle of making a social network, and i want it to be as smooth as facebook.
Like if you look in a console and look at logging, it doesn't update all the time with ajax calls.
on my site i have to load: notifications(the number of new notifs and the notifs themselves), friend requests(same as notifications), online friends(if there are any online it will load the pictures of the online users.) thats 6 ajax calls that is loaded every 10 second. and this causes a huge bandwidth waste and server requests.
Therefore i thought, what if the SERVER told the CLIENT when there was a new update instead of the CLIENT asking the SERVER every 10 seconds.
i have googled this problem and read about ajax push, and a framework called comet. i just can't seem to find any info on how to implement this on jQuery.