Live updating websites?

[tyr1972]

So, im very curious recently. Facebook does some what of live updating with a couple JS calls to PHP. But what does the public think, of a live updating 4chan or reddit?

[lorde banana]

What do you mean by live updating?

[KmartSqrl]

[QUOTE=Banana Lord.;45160940]What do you mean by live updating?[/QUOTE]

The page updates live without you having to reload it. So if you used reddit as an example, you'd see the ratings moving up/down and comments appearing without refreshing the page.

[noodleboy347]

4chan already has live updating threads, with Reddit it would not work as content would move around constantly while you're trying to click things

[lorde banana]

[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;45160976]The page updates live without you having to reload it. So if you used reddit as an example, you'd see the ratings moving up/down and comments appearing without refreshing the page.[/QUOTE]

I couldn't tell if he was referring to live updating content or live code changes. Thanks.

[nixnax123]

What about live updating facepunch?

[xelivous]

[QUOTE=NixNax123;45161599]What about live updating facepunch?[/QUOTE]

labpunch already does that

[djjkxbox360]

Facebook's version is terrible, sometimes it just stops refreshing, that or it refreshes really slowly, but usually I find myself manually reloading Facebook more as it will come up with new content

[dexon]

What do you think about load() ?
[url]http://api.jquery.com/load/[/url]

[supersnail11]

[QUOTE=dexon;45196982]What do you think about load() ?
[url]http://api.jquery.com/load/[/url][/QUOTE]

What is there to think?

[dexon]

is it a good practice to use it or is there a better way... idk ?
(for live update i meant)

[samm5506]

[QUOTE=dexon;45198278]is it a good practice to use it or is there a better way... idk ?
(for live update i meant)[/QUOTE]

Not sure what exactly you mean by "live update" as it's kind of vague, but pjax sounds sort of similar to jQuery's load method. [url]http://pjax.heroku.com/[/url]

[supersnail11]

[QUOTE=dexon;45198278]is it a good practice to use it or is there a better way... idk ?
(for live update i meant)[/QUOTE]

Generally you fetch JSON (or XML if you're a masochist) via AJAX and build the DOM in Javascript. Most big sites use a framework like Angular or Ember, though.

[tyr1972]

[QUOTE=supersnail11;45198329]Generally you fetch JSON (or XML if you're a masochist) via AJAX and build the DOM in Javascript. Most big sites use a framework like Angular or Ember, though.[/QUOTE]

We are doing something exactly like that. Which if im not mistaken Lab Punch runs on that same system.