HTML 5 – Websocket Chat Demo
October 25th, 2010
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The HTML 5 initiative contains a draft spec for WebSockets which allow a browser to establish a full-duplex, bi-directional communication channel over a single TCP socket. This allows web developers to establish real time two way communications with a server using simple javascript without resorting to Flash, Java, ajax long polling, comet, forever iframe, or other current workarounds. Here I’ve written a simple browser chat using WebSockets for the client and PHP for the server.
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