I have been looking at these Chrome usage statistics available on chromestatus.com for a while together with Tsahi Levent-Levi for WebRTC Insights but they are too fascinating to keep them behind our paywall. Let’s do some coffee ground reading on the usage of a number of important APIs and what it tells us about what […]
Apple’s not so private relay fails with WebRTC
Apple released iOS 15 with iCloud Private Relay broken for WebRTC – it still divulges your IP address. This post walks through why and how the WebRTC API’s use your IP address information and how you can check what IP addresses are gathered.
Dealing with HTMLMediaElements and srcObjects in WebRTC applications
Philipp Hancke discusses a how to properly release Media Element resources with WebRTC and a recent Chrome issue that apps to stop handling larger numbers of participants.
Making Zoom’s Smart Gallery on the Web with MediaPipe and BreakoutBox
How to seperate multiple people in the same camera feed into their own unique video streams that can be individually transmitted Google’s MediaPipe and the W3C’s new MediaStreamTrack API
FaceTime finally faces WebRTC – implementation deep dive
Deep dive analysis on how FaceTime for Web uses WebRTC. Philipp “Fippo” Hancke uses webrtc-internals, Wireshark, and reviews the JavaScript implementation to expose Apple’s implementation details.
