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Can you elaborate on that? I'm very interested in the progression of WebSocket and I wonder what's depressing you about the situation.
by stanleydrew 16y ago
Can you elaborate on that? I'm very interested in the progression of WebSocket and I wonder what's depressing you about the situation.
- wmf 16y agoThe last few months have been mostly occupied by arguments about hypothetical security holes — not in WebSocket itself but in other software that WebSocket might be used to exploit. During this time, virtually no actual work on the protocol seems to have been done. The recent paper (flawed as it is by ignoring framing) purporting to demonstrate such a security hole seemed to catalyze browser developers into a decision for a few days, but then the list collapsed into nitpicking and misunderstandings again. Meanwhile all of the alternatives that are being debated in the IETF are different from the WHATWG version that is deployed in some browsers today, so even if Mozilla did ship Firefox 4 with WebSocket, that version is already obsolete; we know there will be a replacement but we don't know exactly what it will be.