djp1988 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Am i correct to assume that ajax is how chat rooms are made possible, if so, how can you refresh the screen avoiding a jump effect to insert the new comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 AJAX is one method to make chatrooms, but the most common one is to have Flash and Java clients connect to server applications through sockets.If you're making an AJAX chat, just update the content by calling the request over and over with setInterval() Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffman Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 I built a chat room once. I kept the whole transcript in a file on the server. When the client asks for an update (per Ingolme's method) it POSTs the number of characters it currently has. The server script then uses that as an offset for reading the file and returns only the characters beyond that point. When the client receives them, it just appends them to the div in which the text is displayed. No flashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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