[wp-hackers] AJAX

[Matt Mullenweg]

Brian Layman wrote:
> Just as in old school computer animation optimizations where you only erase
> what changed and redraw those parts, the internet client should be able to
> do a diff of the last page and the current page and only redraw the altered
> areas.

There is actually a RFC for HTTP diffs, essentially:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3229.html

But it's really meant for single resources. I had it on the todo to 
support for our feeds a while back but it's not a terribly high priority 
now.

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