Socket.IO - WebSockets for everyone
summary
Socket.IO claims to give real bidirectional websockets-style comms across legacy browsers by falling back to long polling, hidden iframes, Flash or multipart XHR and by adding a tiny session protocol so messages are buffered and replayed. It ships a 10 kilobytes compressed client, is tested on older browsers including IE5.5 and mobile, and is deployed in production for games and apps. The NoStream layer paints templates live with a realtime template filter and buffers messages during reconnect, and demos and server adapters exist on GitHub.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25SocketIO
- 2:47Realtime Web
- 3:30Realtime Twitter
- 5:34Working in every browser
- 6:02Using jQuery
- 6:27Transports
- 8:27Browsers
- 8:56WebSocket
- 9:13HTTP
- 10:48Cross browser support
- 11:47Sokka
- 13:06Realtime communication
- 13:30Protocol agnostic
- 14:00Realtime applications
- 14:19Nostream
