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by grandalf 5477 days ago
Socket.io will work with long polling or flash sockets, so it may end up being the approach people take.

However Websockets is a significantly more efficient, standards-oriented approach. There is a large class of apps that would be really awesome (webkit browsers, websockets + node) that will not be hostable with Heroku. In my personal opinion, these would be really awesome apps.