HTML5 Standards WebSocket, Shared Worker Fuel Facebook Messenger For Firefox’s Social API

Facebook Software Developer Pamela Vagata offered a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Facebook Messenger for Firefox’s Social API in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

Facebook Software Developer Pamela Vagata offered a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Facebook Messenger for Firefox’s Social API in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

Vagata wrote about how working on the project with Firefox parent Mozilla enabled the social network to take advantage of HTML5 standards including WebSocket and Shared Worker in order to “architect our messaging stack from the ground up to be fast and efficient.” She added:

Historically, Web developers have worked around the limitations of Web standards by polling servers for updates via asynchronous requests.

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