Use activity.replyToId as a hint for sorting

[compulim]

Feature Request

In addition of using activity.timestamp, we could also use activity.replyToId.

But also note that activity.id and activity.replyToId could be undefined/null.

Additional Context

This is not trivial to solve due to Direct Line protocol issue that is out of our control.

• Bot activities are in random order due to distributed nature of the system
• Although activity ID seems monotonic increasing, protocol team do not recommend us to use it for sorting, i.e. we can't use it
• Thus, there are only 2 fields we can use for sorting: timestamp and replyToId

Currently, we are sorting based on timestamp. For incoming activities, we receive this timestamp field. For outgoing activities, we receive this timestamp field after the server successfully sent the activity. This also means, after the bot completely processed the activity.

As the system is distributed, outgoing activities may not receive "server-blessed" timestamp before the bot response. Thus, Web Chat need to use local clock for timestamp before receiving server-blessing.

We know there may be clock skew (especially when client set to wrong time zone).

Thus, in our previous PR, we attempted to measure/correct the clock skew between client and server. But it's not perfect since there could be milliseconds differences (bigger on mobile devices), user may see jitter of messages as recorded by @Slayouth.

Emulator works because the timestamp field is always local clock.

[Enhancement]

[corinagum]

Resolved by #3287

[corinagum]

reopening due to internal convo with @compulim :)