> So with the modern browsers now days latest Chrome/Firefox (both desktop and mobile) can support websocket seamlessly? Yes. And this has been true for nearly

> So with the modern browsers now days latest Chrome/Firefox (both desktop and mobile) can support websocket seamlessly? Yes. And this has been true for nearly a decade. The jquery analogy is exactly right. These days socket.io is simply an over complicated wrapper around a standard browser feature (websockets). Just like jquery, it will probably hang around as long as we’re alive through sheer stupid inertia.