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Ask HN: What's the status of WebSockets?
After WebSockets were sadly pulled from Firefox 4 and Chrome due to a security hole, I had hoped that a new version would follow quickly and restore faith. Yet it seems to have fallen from the news cycle? This strikes me as a problem, if you're keen on widespread sockets acceptance in browsers.
Is WebSockets DOA? What's the path forwards?
- wmf 16y agoAfter a protracted debate, the security issues were fixed and the new version is being implemented and tested now. http://tools.ietf.org/wg/hybi/ http://tools.ietf.org/wg/hybi/
- btmorex 16y agoThey're being fixed. It'll probably take a while. Best bet right now is to develop against http://socket.io/ http://socket.io/. I'm pretty sure that will be updated when a secure websockets protocol is implemented. Also, for now, you can use a fallback of flash sockets which in my testing perform nearly as well (all the other fallbacks perform pretty poorly if you care about latency at all)