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Re:HTML5 as a gaming platform by eurleif on Monday March 12, 2012 @11:38AM (#3693900)
>Most worrying however is the utter lack of any non-TCP networking in the browser, not even at the specification-proposal stages.

WebRTC is supposed to have a proposal for this at some point, though currently it only has video conferencing specified.

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Re:HTML5 as a gaming platform by azakai on Monday March 12, 2012 @03:16PM (#3694947)
WebRTC will in fact have TCP and UDP sockets with arbitrary content, so it will be great for games.
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