[Pianod] WebSockets

[Michael R. Hines]

That's exactly right, in fact here's a comprehensive list of WebSocket
compatibility:

http://caniuse.com/websockets

The only thing stopping me from trying it was the lackluster mobile
device adoption.

There are literally millions of old iOS and android devices out there
that will take a couple years to be replaced before they get WebSocket
support......

On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 00:58 -0500, Perette Barella wrote:
> So I've been mulling on the web access thing, and it's pretty clear
> WebSocket support is the Right Way to implements web clients going
> forward, with socket.io a sort of workaround to improvise until
> browser support is ubiquitous.  Chrome and Firefox have support,
> Safari has some old broken rough spec version.
> 
> 
> So with Chrome or Firefox, using the tool
> here: http://www.websocket.org/echo.html
> Give it this location: ws://perette.homeunix.org:4446/pianod
> 
> 
> The code is rough and needs refinement before release, and FTR it's
> not actually part of pianod-- it's a websockets gateway I've built
> with the intent of solving this for everything at once.  It'll be at
> least a few more days before release.
> 
> 
> Putting the WebSocket in text mode, you just send the command (the
> gateway adds the CRLF) and it returns each line as a separate packet,
> CR/LF/CRLF (whichever it finds) stripped.
> 
> 
> Hopefully the rest of the browsers will catch up to RFC6455 soon so
> it'll be cross-browser.
> 
> 
> Perette
> 
> 
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