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		jiggy2011 on March 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTM... Anyone know how they do the networking? Websock , Comet or ajax?

paulrouget on March 27, 2012 | [–]

All the info are here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/

jiggy2011 on March 27, 2012 | | [–]

Ah, It's websocket with load balanced nodejs servers.

justinhj on March 27, 2012 | | [–]

It's not a Comet style poll because the only requests I see it making are to a server that seem to be tracking metrics that have no response.

abraham on March 27, 2012 | [–]

There are active websocket connections.

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