start experimenting with a fallback layer

www/assets/js/notwebsocket.js

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+var NotWebsocket = function() {
+    this.connected = false;
+    $.getJSON(WEB_URL + "/nws/connect", function(data) {
+        this.hash = data;
+        this.connected = true;
+        this.recv(["connect", undefined]);
+        this.pollint = setInterval(function() {
+            this.poll();
+        }.bind(this), 100);
+    }.bind(this));
+
+    this.handlers = {};
+}
+
+NotWebsocket.prototype.emit = function(msg, data) {
+    if(!this.connected) {
+        setTimeout(function() {
+            this.emit(msg, data);
+        }.bind(this), 100);
+    }
+    var pkt = [msg, data];
+    var str = escape(JSON.stringify(pkt));
+    $.getJSON(WEB_URL+"/nws/"+this.hash+"/"+str, function(){});
+}
+
+NotWebsocket.prototype.on = function(msg, callback) {
+    if(!(msg in this.handlers))
+        this.handlers[msg] = [];
+    this.handlers[msg].push(callback);
+}
+
+NotWebsocket.prototype.poll = function() {
+    if(!this.connected)
+        return;
+    $.getJSON(WEB_URL+"/nws/"+this.hash+"/poll", function(data) {
+        for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
+            console.log("DBG", data[i]);
+            this.recv(data[i]);
+        }
+    }.bind(this));
+}
+
+NotWebsocket.prototype.recv = function(pkt) {
+    var msg = pkt[0], data = pkt[1];
+    if(!(msg in this.handlers))
+        return;
+    for(var i = 0; i < this.handlers[msg].length; i++) {
+        this.handlers[msg][i](data);
+    }
+}