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Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
- theevocater 14y agoAmazing work both teams. Video conf is still such a painful thing on the web despite everyone's repeated attempts to make it work. Anything that makes it easier and simpler for users is a huge win.
- pthatcherg 14y agoI think Google+ Hangouts are pretty good :).
- theevocater 14y agoI've attempted to use them various times and every single time they've failed to be of use to me. The whole gtalk + video being combined with google+ hangouts has not worked well at all for me so far.
- r00fus 14y agoI can't use Google+ hangouts at work. A P2P video conferencing tool becomes far more interesting. Especially now that Skype is effectively fully logged.
- y0ghur7_xxx 14y agosee also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5166239 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5166239
- sergiotapia 14y agoI'm giddy with excitement on what this could be used for. Please correct me if I'm wrong: Does this mean that when you chat with another person you are directly linked to them, making the communication more secure than say Skype (which passes the 'data' through Skype servers)?
- dbond 14y agoYes, although a relay (TURN) server can still be needed if a direct connection cannot be established (mobile connections etc). Its pretty easy to hook as well, we should see some some great apps come out of it, especially when data channels are fully supported.
- tracker1 14y agoWhere available it's a direct peer2peer connection... where not available it can use an intermediary server... end to end encryption is enabled though, so the in-between servers can't realistically view your data stream. I think things like this are necessary to really get to a point where you can replace the last places Flash makes sense... I do hope development tooling catches up though.
- Quarrelsome 14y agoStill.... need.... adoption.... on..... all..... clients. Killing off flash relies on the slowest chunk of the market getting its act together. I'm looking at you IE.
- josh2600 14y agoStill need directory services too. That problem isn't going away...
- pippy 14y agoClient adoption isn't a problem any more, IE is declining to around 30% on most popular sites. The largest issue with killing flash is the legacy: video players, games, even carousels use it. If omegle was released in the next months, it likely wouldn't use flash.
- Quarrelsome 14y agoFibs. The whole reason I'm using flash in my startup (and it is a major component atm) is because of IE share (and the relative immaturity of HTML5). Are you really telling me that you want to deny your service to a fresh install of windows? While many people appreciate the benefit of better browsers there is still a significant portion that don't and hopping aboard this wagon prior to full adoption means that you exclude them or present roadblocks to them. I have the added benefit of targeting (in part) the older generation with the software I produce making all this excitement muted without cross-browser consensus.
- tracker1 14y agoThough not yet ready for Firefox... you can checkout twelephone.com for a working site using WebRTC ... they're making good progress on this.
- davidw 14y agoCool, now when will this work on my Nexus 7, with the beta version of Chrome?
- woogley 14y agoChrome 26 shows the Android flag for this. Beta on Android is v25, so 6 weeks or less, hopefully ..
- ohwp 14y agoOne year ago I've seen demo's with Opera Mobile 12 and WebRTC Found this linke: http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-webrtc-opera-mobile-12/ http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-webrtc-opera-mobile-12/
- Quarrelsome 14y agoI like how whoever wrote the samples is really not a fan of jquery selectors.
- simonrobb 14y agoI love seeing two teams working together on a project like this instead of competing against one another. The web's going to be a better place as a result of this kind of collaboration.
- fnbr 14y agoAmen. It's things like this that get me excited for the future.
- indubitably 14y agoI'm not convinced that Mozilla and Google are as chummy as this video suggests.
- dobbsbob 14y agodoesn't mozilla get all their funding from google? type about:config in FF and search for google entries its everywhere
- indubitably 14y agoLots of people get funding from the mob, by way of comparison.
- padenot 14y agoMozilla is also quite present in chrome://credits
- pthatcherg 14y agoActually, the respective Mozilla and Google WebRTC teams get along quite well. I work at Google on WebRTC, and from what I've observed the joint work as been close, and always positive.
- kumarharsh 14y agoThis is the most fantastic news I've heard this week!!! Congrats!
- dobbsbob 14y agop2p live sports and ppv incoming
- ryanatkn 14y agoIf anyone is interested I just published a Kickstarter project for Mydentity, which combines WebRTC and Mozilla Persona into a non-profit private messenger. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanatkn/mydentity-is-a-free-web-based-rich-media-private-m http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanatkn/mydentity-is-a-...
- ck2 14y agoHa! But shouldn't they be going at each others throats for the best competition? In any case it's nice to see friendly rivals compared to microsoft.
- glavata 14y agoChatroulette is the 1st application that comes to mind...
- amasad 14y agoThis is great. But like most APIs by w3c it looks terrible. Many lines of code to do something that can be done in a few if only they embrace the de facto standard API design from the JavaScript community.
- nsp 14y agoSexyrsd
- kriro 14y agoHello Skype, Mozilla and Chrome just checking in making sure you have some backup strategies.
- tocomment 14y agoDoes anyone know how this works with firewalls? How about NAT?
- songgao 14y agoIs it just me or everybody who finds the number of points for this one is always equal to "Chrome calling Firefox" one?
- hobbyist 14y agoHello IE, it's IE calling :)
- _pmf_ 14y ago> Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling Hold on a second, I'll set aside a huge slab of memory.