I did a quick reading, and I couldn't tell if WS connections are restricted back to the domain of the calling page, or if arbitrary connections are allowed. If the former, there may not be a reason for the Streaming API to support this. If the latter, perhaps there's a valid use case.
Looking at the protocol itself, this wouldn't be trivial to support, but it might not be that bad either. We'll have to keep an eye on the installed browser base and see when this might make sense. It is too bad that they didn't allow HTTP connections with incremental byte reads in addition to WB connections on that interface. I'm sure they had their reasons. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not particularly familiar with the specifics of WebSockets but here is > the draft documentation: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ > I don't see Chrome Extensions as being any different from desktop > applications as they are both manually installed by the user on their > desktop. > Abraham > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:02, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >> The first release of User Streams is not intended for web clients due >> to capacity constraints. >> >> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ChirpUserStreams >> " >> All services, mobile and browser-based clients must not use Streaming >> until we've sorted out Desktop clients at some scale. One problem at a >> time. >> " >> >> That being said, of course we'd like to encourage experimentation with >> other client types, so that clients can evolve as we scale out the >> service. >> >> While others at Twitter are well-versed in the latest browser >> technologies, I'm totally and willfully ignorant. If you could give a >> brief summary of how the existing Streaming API does not work for >> WebSockets, that might be helpful. What's missing? >> >> -John Kalucki >> http://twitter.com/jkalucki >> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Cezar Sá Espinola <ceza...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hey guys, >> > Quick question, are there any plans on supporting WebSockets protocol >> > for >> > the Streaming API? >> > That'd be awesome for browser based Twitter clients (i.e. Google Chrome >> > extensions). Without this it'll be very difficult for this kind of >> > client to >> > lavarage benefit from the upcoming user streams. >> > Thanks a lot for all your hard work, >> > Cezar Sá Espinola >> > @cezarsa > > > > -- > Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am > @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. >
