carvetia wrote:@myurr
I've actually been working on something similar to what you suggest for a while that's going to be pulling F1 data from a lot of different sources (this forum, feeds, live timings once they're back up and I can work on parsing them again, galleries etc).
When it's up and ready for testing I'll be authenticating against this forum so users here can test it out. It will let you interact in real-time; it's going to be quite experimental/cutting-edge (web sockets) but hopefully interesting and useful for those who are willing/able to use a modern browser
Interesting... I was originally going to go the web sockets route with our implementation but then saw Firefox disable their implementation due to security issues, and believe that we'll either see the others have to follow suit when exploits become known and/or it's going to take forever for Microsoft to implement. We're going down the long held XmlHttpRequest route that should work in most browsers and environments and for anything less than a constant stream of data is almost as efficient (using a custom server infrastructure anyway). I havent looked into this with web sockets, but using the long poll technique we can also load balance the requests and run on the same domain and port, meaning we dont have any issues with the XSS rules blocking connections. It's also less likely to be blocked by firewalls.
Let me know if you ever need any: help, advice, ideas, testers, etc. More than happy to lend a hand.