WebRTC Now Available as W3C Draft

WebRTC was initially disclosed in May of this year when the W3C created a working group who set the goal to develop APIs that will support audio and video communication in real time within a web browser window. According to the current plan, the recommendation spec is due in the first quarter of 2013.

The working draft outlines the APIs for WebRTC, including the Stream API, as well as descriptions of P2P connections, and garbage collection.

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illo

2013. super.
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annymmo

I really hope they make it possible to use other stuff then video or audio. (I mean don't put artificial restrictions in the api on the type of content send.)
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WyomingKnott

annymmoI really hope they make it possible to use other stuff then video or audio. (I mean don't put artificial restrictions in the api on the type of content send.)But what other senses do you use to communicate that can be sent over wires? The only thing that I can think of is session sharing, which is well-established. Unless they perfect the Orgasmatron (c)
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