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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Of course, the Google Bar has to do something like this to provide G+
notifications, and that probably *is* designed for many, many open
tabs.

jml