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HTML5Labs is where Microsoft prototypes early and unstable specifications from web standards bodies such as W3C. Sharing these prototypes helps us have informed discussions with developer communities, and enables us to provide better feedback on draft specifications based on this implementation experience. To find out more about HTML5Labs, read the blog by Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President for Internet Explorer, and the blog by Jean Paoli, President, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
WebSockets
Important Note: This feature is now available in the IE10 Platform Preview that was released at Microsoft's recent Build conference with the Developer Preview of Windows 8. You might notice some differences between the IE10 Platform Preview implementation. We recommend using the IE10 Platform Preview instead of this prototype as we don't plan any future updates to this prototype.
WebSockets is a technology designed to simplify much of the complexity around bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. It can be implemented in web browsers, web servers as well as used by any client or server application. The WebSockets API is currently being standardized by the W3C Web Applications Working Group and the protocol is being standardized by IETF Hypertext Bidirectional (HyBi) Working Group.
For feedback please use this mailing list.
There are 3 samples based on the prototype hosted on Windows Azure:
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Jigsaw Game demo
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Game demo
- Chat Demo hosted with Jetty Server (still using 07 so won't work with 09 release)
All samples should work with a variety of browsers but mileage may vary. For feedback use this mailing list.
Samples source code is available here.
W3C provides the following mailing list (W3C WebApps WG DL) for feedback about the WebSockets API Spec.
IETF provides the following mailing list for feedback about the HyBi Protocol.
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