Push messages to the browser

[dieter]

Hello,

i know that Genie / ProfoundUI does not support pushing screen updates to the browser. But i have heard, that today there are technologies which support this. I am not a web specialist, so i can not explain in detail which technologies are available in the web.

In our green screen applications we often send status message like "Data is loading", "request is being processed", ...
This messages have the effect that the users "feel" that the application is faster. Since our users have changed from client access to Genie i often hear that the applications are slower that they were with client access.

I think if you could solve the problem of pushing messages from the server to the browser the acceptance of Genie would rise. Maybe you have an idea. Maybe the other problem that break messages don't come through could also be solved.

Dieter

[Scott Klement]

There are technologies like web sockets that could potentially allow the server to push updates to the client, but so far they are not very widely used or supported.