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Comment by mort96

I think WebTransport is cool.

What worries me is that some people involved in standardisation seem to be of the opinion that WebTransport supersedes WebSocket. WS has become my go-to transport when I just need to be able to reliably send messages back and forth, whether or not the web is involved at all, and I don't see WebTransport as a replacement for that use case. I hope WS sticks around forever.

Also, it's messed up that WT is only available in HTTPS. There are so many cool use cases for web technologies in local contexts where HTTPS is not a practical option, it's a shame most new technologies are arbitrarily banned from those use cases.

parent mort96 11 months ago

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