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by liamk 4403 days ago
This was a long time coming! I'm very happy to see socket.io 1.0 finally released. Pre-1.0 had some deal-breaking technical issues, such as starting with websockets and falling back to polling. I think the new approach is starting with polling and then seeing if a) websockets are supported by the current browser and b) messages sent via websocket are received by the server (a firewall might prevent this).