WebSockets are usefull if you need some light, realtime interaction between the server and the client, which is still a pretty rare usecase for the most of us.
If you are about to build the next Gmail, Docs or Wave, I think you can afford to craft a jQuery plugin to add some synthatic sugar and "magic" to websockets manipulation, and fallbacks for unsupported browsers. I'd love to get pinged with a link to this future plugin :) On Jan 19, 4:05 pm, Mike Taylor <miketa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/19/10 4:52 AM, DBJDBJ wrote:> @Tato, WebSocket is specified by Google > Inc, and (surpise?) it works > > already in CHROME. > > This isn't quite true. WebSockets are being specced both in the W3C and > WHATWG, and is not a Google product despite their early implementation. > > > Google has a plan to have 100% HTML5 compliant > > browser to act as the only front end to its OS. In that context > > WebSockets are a necessity. And (surprise?) CHROME OS will be talking > > only with Goggle servers which will support WebSockets. > > > This is not rendering WebSokcets as useless, It is only showing you > > the reality in which MSFT, Mozilla and Opera can be less than > > enthusiastic about WebSockets. > > Mozilla has made some good progress towards an implementation. You can > follow this BugZilla > ticket:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472529 > > The WHATWG wiki also states that there is work underway for > Safari/Webkit--without a linked > ticket:http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Implementations_in_Web_browsers#Web_Sockets > > > Also, Web Sockets is two standalone specifications, and no longer > > part of HTML5 ... > > http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#network > > [snip] > > -Mike
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