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Yeah. From what I can see WebRTC is basically a ready made implementation of a video calling app, bolted on the side of the browser, that you can slap some UI o
by modeless 3y ago
Yeah. From what I can see WebRTC is basically a ready made implementation of a video calling app, bolted on the side of the browser, that you can slap some UI on top of. If you want to do anything that isn't a straight Zoom style video calling app (or Stadia, RIP), you'll immediately run into a wall of 5 year old known but unfixed bugs, or worse.
To be fair, video calling is an incredibly important use case and I'm glad it can be done in the browser. I am grateful to the WebRTC team every time I can join a Zoom call without installing a bunch of extra crap on my machine. I just hope that WebRTC really can someday be replaced by composing multiple APIs that are much smaller in scope and more flexible, to allow for use cases other than essentially Zoom and Stadia.
I guess I'm just repeating what the article said, but it's so right that it's worth repeating.
- est 3y ago> WebRTC is basically a ready made implementation of a video calling app, bolted on the side of the browser Yeah, Google bought GlobalIPSound, dumps the source code to w3c as a standard.