[vos-d] Thinking about Javascript

[Reed Hedges]

Is anyone here familiar with Javascript much? 

I'm wondering what kind of networking tools are available from
Javascript. I've been reading about a thing some people call Comet,
(http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545) which basically a publish/push 
model for the server to update pages live. It looks like it uses
a JSON protocol called Bayeux 
(http://svn.xantus.org/shortbus/trunk/bayeux/protocol.txt).
I've been thinking about how we can push VOS events out to the web
browser, and I'm wondering whether Javascript running in the browser
could use a VOS runtime (running in a plugin??) with JS bindings, or 
if it makes more sense for the server to translate the events into 
a more web-specific protocol that would be interpreted entirely by
Javascript code shipped along with the page (even perhaps including all the 
object-to-XML logic in the server as well, like Hypervos).

Thanks

Reed