Even though you can go with websockets or a tcp-websockets bridge, Mozilla has a proposal for TCP Sockets API in JavaScript. Its being used in Firefox OS right

Even though you can go with websockets or a tcp-websockets bridge, Mozilla has a proposal for TCP Sockets API in JavaScript. Its being used in Firefox OS right now and is quite cool. More info at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/TCP_Socket https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/TCP_Socket In the future this could become a standard and everyone would benefit.