Shaun Abram
Technology and Leadership Blog
Subscribe to RSS FeedOSCON Day4: WebSockets
The first talk of the day I attended at Day 4 of OSCON was from Sean Sullivan (Aravo), who gave a talk on “Programming WebSockets“.
Intro
WebSockets is a technology that enables bidirectional communication between web browsers and server side processes. It provides a persistent connection between client & Server, hence enabling ‘push’ abilities where you can push data/notification to browsers from the client. Other client communication options to compare it with would be Ajax
and Comet (basically Ajax with long polling).
Tags: ajax, comet, html, html5, oscon, websockets
HTML5 talk at Google Technology User Group
Last Wednesday, I attended a talk on HTML5 at the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (SV GTUG). HTML5 is a broad term for the next generation of web technologies, including (obviously) the next and long overdue version of HTML, as well as CSS and JavaScript Libraries. The talk was in 3 sections: The first by Seth Ladd (a Developer Advocate for Google) was an introduction to HTML5; The second by Tab Atkins Jr. (a Software Engineer at Google) was on the new HTML5 <video> and <canvas> tags; And the third and final section was by Nathan Naze (also a software engineer at Google) on the Closure JavaScript Library.