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HTML5 Web Socket implementation powered by Flash

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2009-12-09 · latest 2015-07-15

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2012 (3)
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  1. …cross-browser HTTP-based transport would remove the code complexity and reduce the file size. [1] https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js [2] https://github.com/pusher/pusher-js/tree/r3.0.0
    comment by leggetter · 2015-07-15 · in Socket.IO P2P
  2. …fallback, compatible with native WS api). Have you taken at look at this for your fallback support? https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js Phoenix is still far from 1.0, so any and all feedback is welcome.
    comment by chrismccord · 2014-05-16 · in N2O: Erlang Web Framework
  3. ….opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/ Also, every web developer with half a brain can use https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js instead of locking out users unnecessarily by matching the User-Agent.
    comment by lazyjones · 2012-09-24 · in Myspace previews complete redesign
  4. …to a Flash implementation of WebSocket, and use the native browser implementation when available: https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js
  5. https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js is a good fallback which uses Flash Sockets. Whether you can use them or not really depends on your target user. I'd argue that for the general public you can use them; they'll be using IE with…
    comment by leggetter · 2012-04-19 · in WebSockets: Stable and Ready for Developers
  6. …the queue. One nice find from the article is the link to the Flash implementation of websockets: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js
    comment by zackham · 2010-02-28 · in How NodeJS saved my web application
  7. …However, non-standard browsers can theoretically be supported by passing through a Flash plug-in: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js I suppose the ideal scenario is a backend which is capable of supporting both Comet and WS, depending…
    comment by lukifer · 2010-01-28 · in Comet with node.js and V8
  8. …on the client side, so you can use a WebSocket API that falls back to Flash on legacy browsers: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js
    comment by mbrubeck · 2009-12-16 · in Comet is dead, long live websockets
  9. …compatibility shim to make your sites use Web Sockets in some browsers and Flash sockets in others: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js This is the best of both worlds; Flash works for IE users, and Web Sockets will hopefully be…
    comment by mbrubeck · 2009-12-09 · in Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome