Re: [hybi] ws and bwtp thoughts

["Thomson, Martin" <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Greg,

Just throwing out some other cat skinning tools... trying to be value-neutral in the process.

> I think websocket can be improved to have the capabilities
> I'm advocating and the other differences are not important.
> See my blog on this exact subject:
> 
>    http://blogs.webtide.com/gregw/entry/how_to_improve_websocket

This post was the impetus for my email.  You make some good points there, but then use that as a vehicle for expressing your opinion.  That's a valuable contribution to the debate, but I wanted to approach this a little more objectively; approach from a different angle.

> If you are concerned about reducing data usage,

That's another variable in the mix.  I personally tend to value aspects like maintainability more highly.

Sure, metadata overheads are high, relative to our expected payload, but given the nature of the problem space, I believe that there are better ways to spend our specification/implementation complexity budget than on such optimizations.

--Martin