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Re:The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets by Graffur on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:50PM (#26268791)
What you mean by sockets in "exciting until you realize the “boring old stateless World Wide Web” was built over decades of iteration using stateful sockets as the backbone".

I should probably already know this.

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Re:The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets by keithwhor on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:57PM (#26269418)
HTTP is a stateless protocol built on top of TCP network sockets [0] intended to standardize transfer of hypertext. It's the backbone of the WWW.

HTTP is quite literally "hypertext over sockets" so "HTML over websockets" is functionally equivalent... with a layer of abstraction added on top. If you build web software by sending HTML over websockets you're just reinventing what already exists; it's probably why it's never taken off. I think most developers realize within ~weeks to months of working on a "websocket-everything" framework that they're doing more work, not less.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket

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