You can use a Flash compatibility shim to make your sites use Web Sockets in some browsers and Flash sockets in others: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js h

You can use a Flash compatibility shim to make your sites use Web Sockets in some browsers and Flash sockets in others: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js This is the best of both worlds; Flash works for IE users, and Web Sockets will hopefully be available soon in plenty of non-Flash browsers (like the iPhone).