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.

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.