Need support for a JS socket api

Bug #1379303 reported by Adnane Belmadiaf
24
This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Oxide
Triaged
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
Revision history for this message
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".

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.