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Will WebRTC alleviate this at all? Looking over the spec[1] it seems that there is a "reliable" flag on the DataChannel, although the implementation of the unde
by paulgb 14y ago
Will WebRTC alleviate this at all? Looking over the spec[1] it seems that there is a "reliable" flag on the DataChannel, although the implementation of the underlying transport is not specified.
[1] http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html
- wmf 14y agoThe transport is SCTP over DTLS over UDP. If they do it right it should allow out-of-order reliable delivery, which should be better than WebSocket by eliminating TCP's head-of-line blocking. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol-01.txt http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol-...
- vr000m 14y agoYes, it may work but this is yet to be implemented or standardized.
- cmwelsh 14y agoWebRTC is available in developer versions of Google Chrome. There are some demos listed here: http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos
- vr000m 14y agoI have been playing with WebRTC but the API for the data channel is yet to be implemented or available in any of the browser. Currently only MediaStream and PeerConnection has been implemented in Chrome.