Need support for a JS socket api

Bug #1379303 reported by Adnane Belmadiaf on 2014-10-09
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Oxide
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Firefox OS does have TCPSocket and chrome does have Sockets(for extensions), which will let HTML5 apps to act like a network client(IRC client, whatsapp/gtalk, fb chat app, monitoring app) for TCP and UDP connections instead of relying on a server to handle the communication.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TCPSocket
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_network

Changed in oxide:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Bjarne Roß (nfsprodriver) wrote :

This is a bug, which has a higher priority now because some apps rely on this like LoquiIM. The importance should be changed from "Wishlist" to "Medium" or "High".

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