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Roadmap?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
devtools, web-dev

Research direction

This is a roadmap discussion rather than a scoped implementation task, and it names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the proposed WebSockets port, shared XRefresh/LiveReload server, full-path response format, and the linked strict-mode discussion; a decision on scope and acceptance criteria is needed before work can be considered done.

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Description

Some things have happened lately. Firefox 4 beta supports WebSockets. LiveReload pops out and its server is using WebSockets. As I see it, next reasonable steps would be:

  • WebSockets-based XRefresh for Firefox
  • The same file monitoring server for XRefresh and LiveReload

Current response format of LiveReload is just a filename string, like main.css or index.html. I think we should send full path, like /Users/nikitavasilev/Sites/tmp/test.html. Some benefits:

  1. The filename doesn't work well when few CSS/JS-files named the same. For instance, foo/main.css and bar/main.css.
  2. A full path will allow as to do a "strict mode" when we edit something on file:// scheme.

darwin, how hard would be to port XRefresh to WebSockets?
LiveReload developers (andreyvit and dottedmag), what do you think about the same server?

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C#
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Forks
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