This isn't new technology, but its a more reasonable way of thinking about real-time communication in a browser. Developers know how to use sockets, so we give

This isn't new technology, but its a more reasonable way of thinking about real-time communication in a browser. Developers know how to use sockets, so we give them a socket. In a years time this will be native in all browsers anyway: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#network http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#network