3 ms·
It falls apart in environments where WebSockets doesn't work, unless there's a fallback mechanism using XHR.
by jlokier 6y ago
It falls apart in environments where WebSockets doesn't work, unless there's a fallback mechanism using XHR.
- jtms 6y agoyeah... fallback is not a problem, you can always long-poll as socket.io has done for years
- jlokier 6y agoIt's great when people do use an automatic fallback, and we've had reliable methods for that since the 1990s. I've seen WebSockets webapps where they don't bother with a fallback, though.