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The article misses one important reason why allowing UDP from the browser is a bad idea: UDP provides no congestion control. Given the (lack of) quality of wha
by CrLf 10y ago
The article misses one important reason why allowing UDP from the browser is a bad idea:
UDP provides no congestion control. Given the (lack of) quality of what gets developed for the browser, allowing it to send raw UDP would most likely cause an extraordinary amount of problems for the Internet as a whole.
- gafferongames 10y agoGames have been spamming UDP packets over the Internet for the last 20 years and the Internet seems to be doing OK.