Hey guys, Just wondering if any of you guys are familiar with HTML5's WEB Socket IMPLEMENTATION? I intend to create a system or an application relating to Web Sockets but I'm just not sure what exactly. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks in advanced everybody.  I'm still doing some research on this for my final year project but it would be great coming from someone who actually implemented this before in their projects or etc. HTML5 web sockets are an unstable specification not worth programming against yet, unless you want to have to constantly revisit it as the spec changes and as browser support changes. At this point the only major browser that supports it is Chrome, so calling it a "web standard" at this point is pretty laughable. By the time the other browsers decide to support it (Opera and FF did, but they dropped it because the spec was flip-flopping all over the place and still under scrutiny) it will be completely DIFFERENT than what it is TODAY anyway.

Banking on the current web sockets implementation for a project, application, or product is premature unless you have control over the browser that is being used by those who will consume the service, such as via an intranet.

I see. So besides that, What other projects you would suggest using HTML5 from your PERSPECTIVE?