Google is simply blowing me away right now. They seem to have their hands into everything. I'm so curious to know if this business strategy will work. Then Google+ comes along and takes what initially appeared to be separate ventures and combines them into one. Then I read about WebRTC and I can't help but get very excited....and it's open source! What am I going to read next? Headline, Google intern cures cancer over the weekend.
I like this subtle jab at JavaScript developers: "...programming skills are required. However, usage of the Javascript APIs that call WebRTC in the browsers will only require typical web development skills."
Just to make it clear - WebRTC is at least 6-12 months away from being usable in any browser.<p>The first part has just landed in Chrome[1].<p>This isn't exposed to the browser in anyway yet, so the APIs need to be agreed on, build and released.<p>Even in Chrome, the best case for that is months, and that is for the unstable stream.<p>If you want to build cross-browser applications, hopefully WebRTC will be released as a plug-in. It is unlikely that will happen any quicker than Chrome integration though.<p>[1] <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/blog/firststeptowardchromeintegration" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/blog/firststeptowardchr...</a>
It does not seem all that impossible now, now that Skype has been integrated into Facebook. From what I hear, they have stripped down most of skype and provided javascript apis for the facebook web app.<p>Before that, I always used to wonder how could one take all of signaling protocol (like the monstrous SIP, XMPP etc) and media (RTP) and cram all of it into the browser.
Can someone please help me understand better what this actually means as a benefit for us?
Does WebRTC in the browser mean i'll be able to do away with my asterisk server eventually should i choose to, and develop my own solution that works just in the browser, or am i way off track here?
I wonder how it compares with Flotype's[1] Now: <a href="https://github.com/Flotype/now" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Flotype/now</a><p>[1] YC W2011