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The Importance of Ajax Polling in Web Chatting
Ben had never worked as a software developer before and now He was working with one other person on kind of a big project. They decided to start with Ajax polling Because that was actually fairly simple to do Web sockets weren't really like they did exist in an early version of the standard But it wasn't really stable. So eventually once the the web socket standard had stabilized We added web socket support, but we kept the we kept the Ajax polling Functionality in as I fall back whenever something breaks.
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