Use websockets instead of JS polling?

[ghost]

Rather than having the JS poll the event queue, could you not instead use websockets for the client/server interaction?

[zozor]

I have no idea how to do or how it works, and haven't got the time to look into it at the moment. And after getting tired of working with the gtkwebkit thing, i figured JS polling isn't that bad. It's a "hack" that works