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by wmf 4749 days ago
IPv6 is no longer necessarily preferred due to happy eyeballs. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555
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I did something independent of happy eyeballs (I consider my implementation actually superior in some ways as it aims to improve connection latency on all networks), but when I tried to get in front of some browser developers (by posting on HN), I was told by a Chrome networking dev that they tried it and decided that it wasn't worth it. He cited something about how the performance was actually worse than before. The impression that I got was that Happy Eyeballs was not actually widely adopted.