Michael Feichtinger's Blog: HTML5 WebSockets Example
Note: This article was originally published at PHPDeveloper
on 15 July 2010.
Michael Feichtinger has as recent post to his blog talking about HTML5 WebSockets including an example he's created.
HTML5 WebSockets makes it possible to open a persistent connection to a server within a web-browser via javascript. Websockets works already in the latest Webkit-browsers like Safari 5 and Chrome 5. Firefox 4 Beta 1 knows the Websocket-Object but it can't open the connection.
His sample script lets you control the cursors of the other visitors of the page via some Javascript that runs a "mousemove" event on the current page. You can get the source for both the WebSocketServer and server.