Standards
Standards

Understand the various specifications, their maturity levels on the web standards track, and their adoption.
Explore web standards
Groups
Groups

A variety of groups develop Web Standards, guidelines, or supporting materials.
About W3C groups
Get involved
Get involved

W3C works at the nexus of core technology, industry needs, and societal needs.
Find ways to get involved
Resources
Resources

Master Web fundamentals, use our developer tools, or contribute code.
Learn from W3C resources
News and events
News and events

Recent content across news, blogs, press releases, media; upcoming events.
Follow news and events
About
About

Understand our values and principles, learn our history, look into our policies, meet our people.
Find out more about us
Search
My account

Last Call: The WebSocket API

Author(s) and publish date

Published:: 29 September 2011

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of The WebSocket API. To enable Web applications to maintain bidirectional communications with server-side processes, this specification introduces the WebSocket interface. Comments are welcome through 21 October. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Related RSS feed

Subscribe to our news feed