A Device Testing Theatre
...kindof a dumb one. Just having some fun with long polling.
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Drop the .htaccess file and the "drive-in" folder into your web project's root directory. (If you already have an .htaccess file, drop the contents of this one into yours)
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Open up any page in that web project that ends with a .html file extension.
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Do it again on another browser or device, and another one. As you navigate to other pages on that site, the devices will sync.
MIT
- You'll need an Apache web server with PHP.
- You'll need write permissions set on that txt file.
- You have to open files by their .html filename (even index.html).
- For the love of God, don't deploy a live site with this script enabled. :)
This was inspired by a much cooler Node.js implementation (http://github.com/marstall/shim) by Chris Marstall, Creative Technologist at the Boston Globe.