Mac Rumors continues their tradition of live-blogging major Apple events.

This is not the first time they have used simple polling to keep their site from crashing under the weight of thousands of readers following along from home, but it will certainly be the most watched WWDC ever.

Their JavaScript source is very light and targeted to just the specific needs of this page. I’m curious to know if they have experimented with long-polling, and if that would improve their performance.

The site further begs for the need of a way to educate users about real-time updates that do not require page reload:

This page uses the latest web technologies to provide live coverage of this event. The page will not visibly refresh as it has in the past — instead updates will be automatically inserted at the top of the updates section. Do not reload manually.

So, bring on the 3G, GPS, 32GB 4 MegaPixel camera iPhone with accelerometer support as a key developer feature!