WebRTC is already there if you want UDP.

christkv · on Sept 24, 2012

well does it though ? Data channels seems to use SCTP over DTLS over UDP which would create a sudo "TCP" layer on top of the UDP layer as I understood it :(.

tinco · on Sept 24, 2012

SCTP? That's awesome, I happened to have written an SCTP implementation for my BSc final project and it's a great protocol that makes in-order-delivery optional so it's a great replacement for UDP.

edit: I hadn't heard of WebRTC at all, it looks like a dream come true, not only does it offer SCTP, it offers P2P in the browser, which I believe is going to enable Web 3.0 (yes I'll go there). Sadly they haven't even begun on implementing the Data Channels yet, which is the SCTP part of the spec.

christkv · on Sept 25, 2012

I hope ordered messages will be optional. For gaming and analytics out of order udp is a good enough tradeoff for the better "latency" of not doing acks. The p2p stuff is awesome.