In light of the recent discussion about sockets and protocols and Comet, I’ve been thinking about browser protocols:

XMPP:

• Put IM on your website
• Manage XMPP components from a browser

IMAP:

• Write Gmail in 20 minutes

IRC:

• Collaborate on Open (and otherwise) Software from a browser

STOMP:

• Message Queue integration — Browsers can be first-class clients in MQ systems

We have already started the above choices with the Orbited project. But there are hundreds of additional protocol choices. What protocols do you want in the browser?