Evaluate the possibility to use push instead of pull for live data

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This requires modern Web Browsers capable of Web Sockets. This is not a problem, since current IE, FireFox and Chrome browsers do support it. People with older browser would just have to cope without live data.
The real problem however is PHP and the way it works on most installations. There usually are no persistent PHP processes/threads, which makes it difficult to implement a publish/subscribe schema. Special modules and configurations are required.
Since MagIRC should be able to run on as many systems as possible, I don't know if it's really worth investing time implementing a feature almost nobody will be able to use. On the other hand, IRC networks usually have their own (v)servers and as such could actually install and configure nginx for instance...
Please give me some feedback on this :)

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Hmmm actually this could work by doing some (dirty) hacks like reinitiate the connection on the client side if nothing has been received for the past x minutes or so... I probably will make a proof of concept.

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Note: APE looks pretty impressive, worth to have a look at