>I don’t know, myself; I haven’t worked on any apps in recent years that needed this sort of persistent-binary-connection architecture. I have noted a buzz of c

>I don’t know, myself; I haven’t worked on any apps in recent years that needed this sort of persistent-binary-connection architecture. I have noted a buzz of conversation in the last few days around BrowserQuest, a Mozilla.org offering based on lots of HTML5 gooey goodness notably including WebSockets. So maybe they really are a big deal. WTF? It's like Tim Bray took a long vacation from relevance when he went to work at Google, and never came back.