The fact that you can use WebRTC to implement a secure, reliable, and standards based peer-to-peer network is a huge deal that is often overlooked. We have been notably light on the DataChannel here at webrtcHacks, so I asked Arin Sime if would be interested in providing one of his great walkthrough’s on this topic. He put […]
DataChannel
The Minimum Viable SDP
One evening last week, I was nerd-sniped by a question Max Ogden asked: That is quite an interesting question. I somewhat dislike using Session Description Protocol (SDP) in the signaling protocol anyway and prefer nice JSON objects for the API and ugly XML blobs on the wire to the ugly SDP blobs used by […]
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 […]
Sample code for a WebRTC feature? webrtc-experiment’s got that – Q&A with Muaz Khan
Want to try out a newly released WebRTC feature or capability? Odds are Muaz Khan has already done it. I cannot think of any other individual who has contributed more open source WebRTC application experiments to the community than Muaz and his webrtc-experiment.com. His GitHub repository boasts 44 different projects. He did all that in less […]
SDP: The worst of all worlds or why compromise can be a bad idea (Tim Panton)
As WebRTC implementations and field trials evolve, field experience is telling us there are still a number of open issues to make this technology deployable in the real world and the fact that we would probably do some things differently if we started all over again. As an example, see the recent W3C discussion What […]