While we came a long way in this chapter, maybe Facebook doesn't have anything to fear from the baby steps we took toward converting the Notes application into a social network. This chapter gave us the opportunity to explore some really cool technology for pseudo real-time communication between browser sessions.
Look up the technical definition for the phrase real time and you'll see the real-time web is not truly real time. The actual meaning of real time involves software with strict time boundaries that must respond to events within a specified time constraint. Real-time software is typically used in embedded systems to respond to button presses, for applications as diverse as junk food dispensers and medical devices in intensive ...
