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Re:Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5 by kcbanner on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:03PM (#4511287)
Sockets exist, work, and are used by lots of people.
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Re:Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5 by Ryan_Shmotkin on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:06PM (#4511314)
And work on all browser for all people.

Or wait.. they don't for most

http://caniuse.com/websockets

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Re:Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5 by mikeryan on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:29PM (#4511452)
Pretty much every modern websockets Javascript library you use these days will provide fallback mechanisms to flash or long polling to provide the same features. Take a look at the supported browsers for Socket.io and its a much larger list then the one you've provided.

http://socket.io/#browser-support

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Re:Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5 by flatline3 on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:33PM (#4513038)
They're not sockets, they're WebSockets, and they require a custom HTTP server setup just to open a socket connection to a service.

This means that I can't do something that should be really simple -- like open a VNC connection to a remote server -- without first configuring an HTTP WebSocket proxy.

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