WebSocket Articles
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Introducing HumbleNet: a cross-platform networking library that works in the browser
Announcing the release of HumbleNet, a project initiated at Humble Bundle in 2015 to port peer-to-peer multiplayer games, originally to asm.js and now to WebAssembly. The current open source version of the library exposes a simple peer-to-peer API that allows for basic peer discovery and the ability to easily send data (via WebRTC) to other peers. Today, you can build a game that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, while using any web browser — and they can all communicate in real-time via WebRTC.
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Peering Through the WebRTC Fog with SocketPeer
WebRTC allows browsers to do things they never could before, but a soup of unfamiliar terminology and the complexity of the API makes for a steep learning curve. After spending several weeks neck-deep in example code and cargo-culting several libraries, I have emerged with a workable understanding and a nifty library that helps hide some […]
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Hacks Weekly – CSS Flexbox, Designing JavaScript APIs, WebSockets and more
This week Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team think you should read more about , amongst other things!
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getUserMedia is ready to roll!
We blogged about some of our WebRTC efforts back in April. Today we have an exciting update for you on that front: getUserMedia has landed on mozilla-central! This means you will be able to use the API on the latest Nightly versions of Firefox, and it will eventually make its way to a release build. […]
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Announcing the May Dev Derby winners!
Last month, ten excellent WebSocket demos were shared in the May Dev Derby competition. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges—Guillermo Rauch, Peter Lubbers, and Rob Hawkes—have decided on three winners and three runners-up. You don’t have to be a contestant to get excited. Because these demos are completely open-source, they provide wonderful […]
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BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment
It’s time for some gaming action with a new HTML5 game demo: BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer adventure game created by Little Workshop (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck) and Mozilla. Play the game: browserquest.mozilla.org BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No […]
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WDC2011: Tomorrow's Web (and Future Technologies)
Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Web Developer Conference in Bristol. This was the fifth conference in the event’s history and was attended by well over 200 Web designers and developers from across the UK. In my talk I covered some Web technologies that are on the horizon and […]
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HTML5 APIs – Where No Man Has Gone Before! – Presentation at Gotham JS
Last weekend I was in New York City to speak at the GothamJS conference and Mozilla also sponsored it. It was a nice event with about 200 attendees, taking place in the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. The event was one-track with 8 speakers, and personally I always prefer when it’s just one track for follow-up […]
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Aurora 6 is here
What’s new in Aurora 6? The most notable addition to this new Aurora are the <progress> element, window.matchMedia API, better APIs for binary data, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of WebSockets. Aurora 6 has been published last week and can be downloaded from firefox.com/channel. The <progress> element This element can be used to […]
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WebSocket disabled in Firefox 4
Recent discoveries found that the protocol that Websocket works with is vulnerable to attacks. Adam Barth demonstrated some serious attacks against the protocol that could be used by an attacker to poison caches that sit in between the browser and the Internet. This is a serious threat to the Internet and Websocket and not a […]
