Can't stand crap like this. People who reinvent the wheel (poorly), or try to, make the world a worse place... something related to 'visualization' -- psychological stuff. People who fail to visualize and truely, intimately understand things will often invent breakthrough technology as JavaScript 'sockets.'
Hi,
Many of the comments here are negative, probably due to the overly sensational title ;-) Since this is a project I have been working on, however, I will do my best to clarify and respond candidly.
This is clearly not a breakthrough. Sockets (or socket-like interfaces) are the most obvious way to communicate a bi-directional stream of bytes. This has been true for decades. The problem is that everybody has been trying to reinvent the wheel for AJAX. So yes, this is not new, just something that had been missing from the web for a long time!
We have been very mindful of the security implications. Orbited uses a strict whitelist and will not allow outgoing connections to addresses (hostname:port) that are not listed in the access configuration.
