Exactly. I think most people didn't use Websockets due to the theoretical performance improvement over HTTP 1.1, but because it's a different programming model.

Exactly. I think most people didn't use Websockets due to the theoretical performance improvement over HTTP 1.1, but because it's a different programming model. I think it's very shortsighted to assume people should (or want) to roll their own streaming protocol when Websocket is already a great fit for many applications.