Firefox and Opera have both disabled support for HTML5 WebSockets in the latest builds of their respective browsers. The move comes on the heels of a protocol vulnerability that could leave ...

A simple full-stack JavaScript application lets you see what happens under the hood in the WebSockets communication protocol.

The nearly-complete HTML5 standard for current and future Web software includes just such a solution, a new protocol called WebSockets. This protocol allows a Web client to create a connection, keep ...

Officials at Mozilla have decided to disable support for Web Sockets in future versions of Firefox because of concerns over the security of the the current version of the protocol.The group said ...

WebSockets have been around for a while, so your browser should support them. If it doesn’t, though, you can always use this hack — at least in one direction.

Web developers typically depend on Ajax long-polling for instantaneous data in the browser, but today's version of WebSockets would do that job (and a few more) even better.

Microsoft is previewing a new Azure Web PubSub service used to create real-time applications based on WebSockets communication tech. Because WebSockets allows for full-duplex communication channels ...