Slack is an über popular and fast growing communications tool that has a ton of integrations with various WebRTC services. Slack acquired a WebRTC company a year ago and launched its own audio conferencing service earlier this year which we analyzed here and here. Earlier this week they launched video. Does this work the same? Are there any […]
Reverse-Engineering
Is Slack’s WebRTC Really Slacking? (Yoshimasa Iwase)
Earlier this month Fippo published a post analyzing Slack’s new WebRTC implementation. He did not have direct access or a team account to do a thorough deep dive – not to mention he is supposed to be taking some off this month. That left many with some open questions? Is there more to the TURN network? […]
Dear Slack: why is your WebRTC so weak?
Dear Slack, There has been quite some buzz this week about you and WebRTC. WebRTC… kind of. Because actually you only do stuff in Chrome and your native apps: I’ve been there. Launching stuff only for Chrome. That was is late 2012. In 2016, you need to have a very good excuse to launch something […]
Hello Chrome and Firefox, this is Edge calling
For the first time, Chrome, Firefox and Edge can “talk” to each other via WebRTC and ORTC. Check the demo on Microsoft’s modern.ie testdrive. tl;dr: don’t worry, audio works. codec interop issue… Feature Interoperability Notes ICE yes Edge requires end-of-candidate signaling DTLS yes audio yes using G.722, Opus or G.711 codecs video no standard H.264 […]
Wiresharking Wire
This is the next decode and analysis in Philipp Hancke’s Blackbox Exploration series conducted by &yet in collaboration with Google. Please see our previous posts covering WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and FaceTime for more details on these services and this series. {“editor”: “chad hart“} Wire is an attempt to reimagine communications for the mobile age. It is a messaging app […]