[webkit-dev] Staging WebSocket protocol deployment

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm not very familiar with the IETF's efforts, but my understanding is
>> > that they were creating a competing protocol.  Are they in fact creating
>> > something that they want to submit as a replacement to WebSockets?  If
>> > so, why is WebSockets moving to last call?
>>
>> The IETF is just a bunch of open mailing lists, there's no "they" that
>> doesn't include us.
>>
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear in my word choice.  I'm actually on one of the lists,
> though I obviously don't follow it too closely.  :-)
>
>  The WebSocket protocol is pretty stable at this point. I doubt it will
>> change much. The recent IETF meeting indicated that most people agree that
>> we want something like WebSockets, and it has already received several
>> years of public review.
>>
>> I wouldn't worry about changing the schemes or anything like that; if the
>> protocol _does_ change in non-backwards-compatible ways, then we'll just
>> change the protocol to not step on this code.
>
>
> Just to be clear, you're saying that it's fairly unlikely that it's going
> to change in a backwards compatible way?
>
> I ask because there's not much time left to make such decisions before it
> goes into Chrome 4 without the "webkit-" prefix.  And once that ship sails,
> there's not much of a point to adding it.
>

On the other hand, as Ojan pointed out, LocalStorage is a perfect example of
an API that was thought to be good and stable that became a disaster.  Maybe
it is best to put it behind a prefix until we have a better understanding of
the beast and some real world implementation experience of the complete
stack (not just the part in the browser).

+1 for AP's plan.
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