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by daeken 5496 days ago
I've held off on using WebSockets until binary frames are supported. I'm amazed they haven't been so far.
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yesbabyyes 5496 days ago
Ericsson has a working implementation for this, they do voice and video browser to browser with Webkit:

https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-real-time-communication

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600585

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MostAwesomeDude 5496 days ago
In practice, things like Base64 encoding are used. That's what we use in Ganeti Web Manager to host a noVNC (HTML5 VNC client) and have it talk WebSockets with the backend.

In theory, there's no good reason we can't have binary frames; I have internally filed it under the "Why can't we have nice things?" category.

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