Announcing pushJS: Send javascript to any connected browser

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fun things to do: redirect users to porn site using: window.location = 'http://youporn.com; (or worst) or just sending infinite number of messages while(1){alert('click ok!');}

Isn't this just pusherapp.com? (not trying to be snide, just curious)

I will check them out. I'm not affiliated with them.

I'm RandomUser829

What? You just push something through WebSockets and blindly eval() it?

This is going to sound snide, and I'm really just confounded... what was "created" here? What is there to "announce"?

You can always add specific functionality to the javascript to handle specific commands. What was created is a nice example of how to integrate websockets with a message q into web application. It also lets you push ANY javascript via redis to anyone's browser. The concept has lots of potential. I'd like to see more widespread use of websockets. I believe projects like this can help get the ball rolling.

Many years ago, this was effectively the only way to do anything. JSON was created in response to how bad an idea pushing things down and running them through "eval" is, as are the rest of the technologies you are presumably reacting to.

Nobody can stop you and if you're one of the rare handful of people with enough discipline to prevent this from blowing up in your face, go nuts. But please don't go around telling people how wonderful this is without considering the history of why we all don't just do this all time, considering it's actually easier in terms of raw effort than actually using JSON et al properly.

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