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I’m building a web application that is aimed at developers. I assumed that most web developers would be using a modern browser, and thus would have support for WebSockets. Is there any need, then, for socket.io? Or maybe I’m just being naive about this?
WebSockets support is very limited. The current release version of Internet Explorer (IE 9) doesn’t even support the current WebSockets specification. You need IE 10+, Firefox 11+, Chrome 16+, or a nightly build of Safari.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket#Browser_support
So it’s a pretty big assumption that most web developers are using a browser that supports it.
Also, think about enterprise web developers. Often their corporate users are all running some older version of a browser (almost always IE) that the company has standardized on (usually to support some older Line of Business app).
In fact, 7% of all internet users and 25% of Chinese users are still using IE 6.
There will likely be plenty of need for socket.io for the foreseeable future.