Is this Google's response to MS purchasing skype? Seems like the classic strategy of commoditizing your competitor's business (and they get a 2-for-1 deal since Apple is also wielding FaceTime).
Does anyone have any ideas what the timeline for browser support is likely to be?<p>The website currently says they've been <i>working closely with Mozilla</i> and <i>we expect to see WebRTC support in Firefox and Chrome soon!</i>.
Very nice, thank you Google.<p>Glancing over the API docs, I'm not clear what will be used for signaling. It appears to be based on XMPP/Jingle, am I right?<p>What about SIP?
One way to decimate adversaries is to open-source your entire competitive advantage. Unfortunately that only works when you’re the market leader.<p>So nobody cares about open-sourcing WebRTC. Something that would be actually noticeable in this field right now would be Microsoft that open-sources Skype and gives everything away under the BSD license.
So is this another segment of HTML5 block or a completely novel idea?<p>It looks like a <device> element with streaming but they don't mention it at all.