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Is there a big difference (in terms of performance, browser implementation availability, server load etc) between HTML5 SSEs and straight up Ajax polling? From the server side, it seems like an EventSource is just hitting the specified page every ~3 seconds or so (though I understand the timing is flexible). Granted, it's simpler to set up on the client side than setting up a timer and having it $.get every so often, but is there anything else? Does it send fewer headers, or do some other magic I'm missing? Ajax polling adds a lot of HTTP overhead since it is constantly establishing and

Until now I was mainly using Struts 2 , Spring , JQuery technology stack for building web applications. The point is, that mentioned stack uses server side MVC pattern. The main role of web browsers was limited to a request/response cycle (+ client side validation). Data retrieval, business logic, wiring and validation were mainly responsibilities of the server side. I have few questions regarding AngularJS framework that were inspired by following quotes I've read: From the AngularJS tutorial : For Angular apps, we encourage the use of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern to

Possible Duplicate: How to decide when to use Node.js? Sorry if I'm a bit ambiguous, but I'm trying to understand the real advantages of using Node.js instead of other server-side language. I'm a JavaScript enthusiast, so I'm probably going to play with Node.js, but I want to know if I should use it in my projects. Raynos It's evented asynchronous non-blocking I/O build ontop of V8 . So we have all the performance gain of V8 which is the Google JavaScript interpreter. Since the JavaScript performance race hasn't ended yet, you can expect Google to constantly update performance on V8 (for free)

-- Question -- I am just starting out with the REST API and am getting pretty confused. This is what my PHP cRUL client-side looks like for a PUT. case 'PUT': curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT'); curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); break; Now when I look at the server my $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] shows PUT, but my question is how do I get the $data I sent with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. All I need to do is get the $data sent with a PUT request into the next line. Like $value = $data['curl_data']; I have seen so much clutter on this topic that it is giving me a headache.