There has been more noise about WebRTC making it possible to track users. We have covered some of the nefarious uses of WebRTC and look out for it before. After reading a blog post on this topic covering some allegedly new unaddressed issues a week ago I decided to ignore it after some discussion on the mozilla […]
Chrome
getUserMedia Mirrors and Frame Rates
Let’s have some more fun with getUserMedia by creating a simple mirror application and determining its frame rate. If your user is going to send their video, it is a general best practice to let them see what they are sending. To do this you simply route the local video stream capture by getUserMedia to […]
How to use WebRTC and Chrome Extensions to Call a Browser When it is Not Open (Konstantin Goncharuk)
Ring! Sometimes you need an alert to get your attention. Traditional phone systems make this easy – if someone calls you your phone rings. The traditional telephony model assumes the called device is always on an available to ring and this is how it generally works across analog phones, mobiles, VoIP phones, and even desktop […]