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WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport
15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-01-04 · latest 2025-11-05
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think p2p-webtransport was superseded by "webtransport" ( https://github.com/w3c/webtransport ). Supposedly, the webtransport design should be flexible enough to support p2p even though focus is the…
comment by embedding-shape · 2025-11-05 · in A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024) -
…You seem to know better and their documentation contradicts and refutes your assertion. https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md
comment by motorest · 2025-04-12 · in You might not need WebSockets -
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Browser WebTransport – Consider Removing ServerCertificateHashesstory by diggan · 2025-02-13 · 0 comments
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…which makes it much worse than that. We're aware of it and working on it. This is the core issue: https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/issues/543
comment by FredrikNoren · 2023-10-04 · in Show HN: Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust -
…https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-webtrans-ov... https://www.w3.org/TR/webtransport/ https://github.com/w3c/webtransport https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic/blob/main/e…
comment by still_grokking · 2023-07-17 · in WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas -
…like dashboard statistics then going forward the new WebTransport API might be a much better base: https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md At this instant it's hot off the assembly line though having just shipped in…
comment by zamadatix · 2022-01-12 · in The WebSocket Handbook -
…though, they're coming up with a way to support basically any TCP based protocol via WebTransport: https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md
comment by no_wizard · 2021-07-13 · in Firefox 90 -
…like Congestion Control is still a big unknown [0] and we don’t have Datagrams everywhere. [0] https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/issues/168 [1] https://github.com/quicwg/datagram
comment by Sean-Der · 2020-12-31 · in Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC -
…about it and its potential for real-time browser-based multiplayer games (which I'm working on). https://github.com/w3c/webtransport
comment by aroman · 2020-12-31 · in Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC -
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W3C – WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transportstory by cchristensendev · 2020-11-28 · 0 comments
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…[3] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/v2.4/features/defer... [4] https://github.com/WICG/web-transport
comment by vishwams · 2020-09-26 · in Deprecate GraphQL Subscriptions over WebSockets in Favour of SSE/EventSource API -
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WebTransport Explainerstory by BerislavLopac · 2020-06-28 · 0 comments
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Folks who are interested in the WebTransport API may find it easier to read the "explainer" document. https://github.com/wicg/web-transport/blob/master/explainer.... It addresses a number of the top comments here, e.g. why not just use…
comment by dfabulich · 2020-06-28 · in WebTransport API -
…[2] [3]. [1] https://w3c.github.io/openscreenprotocol/ [2] https://github.com/WICG/web-codecs [3] https://github.com/WICG/web-transport (client/server), https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-quic/ (P2P) If you have suggested use cases or questions…
comment by mfoltzgoogle · 2020-03-03 · in NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast -
…needed, there's also a proposal that lets you send data unreliably, but in a client-server setting: https://github.com/WICG/web-transport/blob/master/explainer.... Both are currently being actively prototyped in Chromium (full disclosure:…
comment by vasilvv · 2020-01-04 · in Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices