Originally Posted by paulbrock:
“In what sense, and who would limit it?”
There are bugs in every browser release.
IOS 6 has seemingly broken long polling which is meant to break loads of web apps.
When you buy something, you click a button to process a payment. The server obviously cannot authorise the payment until it gets an OK from the credit card company.
So it has to wait for the OK. The web browser using long polling is meant to know this and wait too. If long polling is not there then this part of the web is broken. It is supposedly common in Ajax stuff.
There are good web standards these days so breaking standards is more and more a thing of the past.
To be fair Opera is not always that great at transaction stuff.