Comet soars past Ajax?

If you're interested in Web application architectures, you should read Alex Russell's recent article Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser (he's project lead for The Dojo Toolkit).

It's not AJAX ... He's talking about server-push data streaming with low latency, for which he coined the name "Comet", and he reckons that it's better for users.

Here's an interview with Alex Russell about Dojo (by SYS-CON.TV, at at the Real-World AJAX seminar in San Jose, May 2006).