To the user it's not excessive. They want to see near real time (minimum of 1 second) update of data on their browser. That's roughly 30KB data that need to be generated and shipped to the browser every second.
However, it's only one page whose final size is less than 32KB when shipped to the browser. Currently this 32Kb HTML replaces an innerHTML on a template html with logos etc already loaded. Users limited to a maximum of 5.
So much for AJAX's simulated push hype?!
With COMET's approach, seems that we will have to redo much of the way things are already done.
Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Do you not think that banging on the server every second is a bit excessive? How many pages are doing this sumultaneously?