Remove browserchannel as a dependency #51
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Browserchannel (and it's sub-dependencies) have a litany of security issues, although we aren't actually using it in production any more, it's presence is making it difficult to upgrade other libraries.
This removes browserchannel to free up some of the interdependencies and let us update things like connect and express in other projects.
Some tests have been (hopefully temporarily) commented out, I plan to backport some of the client modifications we made elsewhere which may fix some of these tests and let us re-enable them.
SockJS and socket.io are likely next on the hit list, and should be much easier to remove than browserchannel was.