Comments on: Does WebRTC have a Role in Chrome’s Market Dominance?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:24:34 +0000

Robert,

Lets call it Chrome-first then?

If you have a business to run, you’d make sure it works best for your target audience, which more often than not will be Chrome on the web. For WebRTC at least, Chrome is slowly adopting the “standard” (something without an RFC yet ind you), so at this point in time, if you care to have customers, make sure they can use your stuff – have it run on Chrome.

By: Robert O'Callahan

Robert O'Callahan — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:18:47 +0000

“Develop for Chrome”, if widely adopted, would mean the end of Web standards. That is not good for anyone.

It’s not even good for Google. If developers test only on Chrome then their sites come to depend on Chrome bugs, so Google can no longer fix those bugs. Those unfixable bugs make life miserable for Chrome devs and Web devs for all time.

By: Philipp Hancke

Philipp Hancke — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:08:10 +0000

if you look at the right figures you’ll find that about 0.012% of sites used by Chrome users use WebRTC. Its measurable only because Chrome is huge.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:08:14 +0000

In reply to Hugh Isaacs II.

True. Itay wrote a nice article about it a year ago – https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/05/will-an-apple-a-day-keep-webrtc-away/

By: Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh Isaacs II — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:06:25 +0000

Also something unsaid, Facebook video calls on desktop only work in Chrome and Firefox and when users try calling people in Safari or IE it tells them to switch to Chrome or Firefox.