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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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  1. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think p2p-webtransport was superseded by "webtransport" ( https://github.com/w3c/webtransport ).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)
  2. …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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. …[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
  10. 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
  11. …[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
  12. …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