HTTP is a stateless protocol built on top of TCP network sockets [0] intended to standardize transfer of hypertext. It's the backbone of the WWW. HTTP is quite

HTTP is a stateless protocol built on top of TCP network sockets [0] intended to standardize transfer of hypertext. It's the backbone of the WWW. HTTP is quite literally "hypertext over sockets" so "HTML over websockets" is functionally equivalent... with a layer of abstraction added on top. If you build web software by sending HTML over websockets you're just reinventing what already exists; it's probably why it's never taken off. I think most developers realize within ~weeks to months of working on a "websocket-everything" framework that they're doing more work, not less. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket