Comments on: Why is WebRTC winning over its (non)competition?

By: Gero

Gero — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:57:15 +0000

Many thanks for your article!
Beautiful!
gt

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 08:55:58 +0000

In reply to Y.C..

Y.C, in mobile there’s more than just WebRTC, but in general most of what you’ll find will end up using pieces of WebRTC in mobile as well. The reason for it is the large ecosystem around WebRTC – it is the most widely used client-side real time media engine today.

By: Y.C.

Y.C. — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:49:55 +0000

What about for mobile, such as Android and iOS? In order to enable RTC, there is only WebRTC out there?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:27:00 +0000

In reply to Roman Shpount.

I think it won’t stand the test of time when it comes to scaling and network conditions.

WebRTC NV is headed this way, but that’s 2-3 years down the road at least.

By: Roman Shpount

Roman Shpount — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 03:01:53 +0000

What about the thing that Zoom is doing with media capture, encoding in the WebAssembly module and sending data over WebSocket? None of this is technically WebRTC, even though to most users it looks exactly the same.

By: Jim Courtney

Jim Courtney — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:48:59 +0000

Sounds like those anti-vaxxers who ask what they can do to prevent their children from measles. The only reliable choice is the MMR vaccination. (and based on my childhood experience, the really don’t want to get measles). Fortunately social media tries to set them straight on this.

By: David P

David P — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:25:12 +0000

I think there is also “whatever iOS forces you to use”.

By: Philipp Hancke

Philipp Hancke — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:11:17 +0000

We can quite clearly see what happens because of the lack of competition: Chrome/WebRTC release notes get published two weeks before the stable release and then are grossly inaccurate (for M73 iceConnectionState and MDNS).

Actually there is an alternative and it seems to be quite popular: take webrtc.org and ship it yourself. Whether that is native or as an electron app…