
HTML5 Server Sent Events
HTML5 introduces a lot of new methods to communicate with other services. Web Sockets are a great example of this, however, using them can be fairly complicated. The Server-Sent Events specification defines a way to trigger DOM events using an active HTTP connection.
Feature Detection
This example opens an Event Stream with a simple PHP script, which outputs links to a random XKCD comic every 50 to 2500 milliseconds.
- EventSource Interface
- fail
- <event-source>
- fail