ORTC support in Edge has been announced today. A while back, we saw this on twitter: Windows Insider Preview build 10525 is now available for PCs: http://t.co/zeXQJocgLs This release lays groundwork for ORTC in Microsoft Edge — Microsoft Edge Dev (@MSEdgeDev) August 18, 2015 “This release [build 10525] lays the groundwork for ORTC” was quite […]
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The Microsoft in the Room – IE and WebRTC (or ORTC?)
As WebRTC has matured to a state where it’s first implementations are ready for companies to launch real services around it, the readiness of various companies to adopt WebRTC has fanned out quite a bit. Some are already charging ahead as early adopters, while others are playing it conservative. Of those in the conservative camp, one of the […]
Building Consensus on WebRTC – Q&A with W3C Editor Dan Burnett
I’m at the IIT RTC Conference this week in Chicago which is an excellent, no-BS conference that featured many WebRTC luminaries and one of best events I have attended in a long time. On Tuesday I moderated a panel with WebRTC contributors and ORTC promoters, Robin Raymond of Hookflash, Bernard Aboba of Microsoft, and Peter […]
ORTC is not the “Other” RTC: Q&A with ORTC CG Chair Robin Raymond
Biggie vs. Tupac. Gates vs. Jobs. Apple vs. Samsung. Nothing catches people’s attention for no legitimate reason like a feud. Unfortunately this isn’t just a celebrity phenomenon. Feuds have been endemic even to real communications as well. From the very beginning, Elisha Gray’s dispute with Alexander Graham Bell over the original telephone patent showed the industry […]
Updated: Why the WebRTC API has it wrong – Interview with WebRTC Object API (ORTC) co-author Iñaki Baz
Updated 25 Aug 2013 – some minor edits fixing some ORTC API references and added ORTC sample code. In my post on WebRTC standardization I mentioned that one of the controversial points of discussion in the W3C context was whether the SDP Offer/Answer model and the current API provided the level of flexibility a wide range of […]