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I\'ve created a very simple multiuser game for learning purposes.

As users log on, each other user gets an update of all currently logged in users.

When a us

Answer 1

if you used html5 socket connections as your way of connecting to the server, your socket server script would know when a subscriber disconnects. this would also allow you to push data to all the clients in real time without long polling. the only problem is I don't know what the support of html5 sockets is at the moment. I have done something similar using Flash, which also supports socket connections.