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Filling the remaining gap between WebSocket, WebRTC and WebTranspor

Existing web platform facilities for network communication include WebSocket and WebRTC. Each mandates a specific protocol, ensures TLS, and respects the Same Origin Policy. The proposed WebTransport is similar in these respects.

Browser | ChatGPT Learn

Let ChatGPT research and interact with websites

chadtmiller.com/goose

A Gleam WebSocket consumer for AT Protocol Jetstream events.

bigmoves/goose

🪿 A Gleam WebSocket consumer for AT Protocol Jetstream events.

Community Tech Speakers

Dietrich was kind enough to describe the Mozilla Tech Speakers program he created and ran, where the people around the world already promoting Mozilla/ Firefox / etc got support to give talks. Calling it Ecosystem Activity Uplift Program here: This would need funding to run such a thing, although we could maybe prototype parts of it with the Community Fund. As input, one of the things we need is lists of events next year. I think I’ll start by making a wiki page here to get things started s...

browseros-ai/BrowserOS

🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.

How It All Started: Pre-W3C Web and Internet Background

1971: Ray Tomlinson of BBN creates email program to send messages across a distributed network.

RSSCloud Vs. PubSubHubbub: Why The Fat Pings Win | TechCrunch

Editor's note: With all of the debate lately between RSSCloud versus PubSubHubbub, we wanted to hear from a developer who could actually tell us which one might be better and why. The following guest post is written by Josh Fraser, the co-founder of EventVue, who is an active contributor to PubSubHubbub in his free time. He has contributed several client libraries for PubSubHubbub including a WordPress plugin. Guess which side of the debate he falls on. In the past few months, a lot of attention has been given to the rise of the real-time web. The problem is that the web wasn't designed with real-time in mind. There is a huge need for the tech community to get behind new protocols that will power this fundamental shift in how web applications work. Today I want to take a look at two of the leading protocols that enable real-time notifications on the web. While there are older protocols that enable real-time notifications like XEP-0060, PubSubHubbub (PuSH) and rssCloud are two new protocols which show a lot of promise of gaining adoption. Both PuSH and rssCloud address a fundamental flaw in the way web applications work today. Currently, getting updates on the web requires constant polling. Subscribers are forced to act like nagging children asking, "Are we there yet?" Subscribers must constantly ping the publisher to ask if there are new updates even if the answer is "no" 99% of the time. This is terribly inefficient, wastes resources, and makes it incredibly hard to find new content in as soon as it appears. Both protocols flip the current model on its head so that updates are event driven rather than request driven. By that I mean that both protocols eliminate the need for polling by essentially telling subscribers, "Don't ask us if there's anything new. We'll tell you." But if you find yourself confused about how they are different, you're not alone.

2026 Web Engines Hackfest

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on specifications (W3C, WhatWG, TC39), on web compat (webcompat.com), or on documentation (MDN Web Docs, web.dev).

2026 Web Engines Hackfest

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on specifications (W3C, WhatWG, TC39), on web compat (webcompat.com), or on documentation (MDN Web Docs, web.dev).

24/7 - Chats | Igalia - Open Source Consulting and Development

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly)

What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.