launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>> So either we accept that users won't be able to open multiple tabs
>> anymore, or we drop the whole longpoll concepts altogether.
>
> Not at all: there are solutions to the issue (note that the wildcard
> approach just defers the problem - there is as you note a maximum
> connection limit as well, and we don't want to reach that - OTOH we
> don't need to aim for perfection). We should study what heavy ajax
> apps like twitter, facebook and gmail do.
>

Using those three sites, I rarely want to have more than a small
number of tabs open at once. Perhaps their UI model encourages such
behaviour at some fundamental level.

> But - we need to either do, or not do, this project :)

Agree.

jml