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How Zoom’s web client avoids using WebRTC (DataChannel Update) Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 23, 2018. Zoom recently started using WebRTC’s DataChannels so we have added some new details at the end in the DataChannels section. Rube Goldberg’s Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin (1931) Zoom has a web client that allows a participant to join meetings without

Guide to WebRTC with Safari in the Wild (Chad Phillips) It has been more than a year since Apple first added WebRTC support to Safari. My original post reviewing the implementation continues to be popular here, but it does not reflect some of the updates since the first limited release. More importantly, given its differences and limitations, many questions still remained on how to best develop We

Slack Does WebRTC Video – Here’s How (Gustavo Garcia) Slack is an über popular and fast growing communications tool that has a ton of integrations with various WebRTC services. Slack acquired a WebRTC company a year ago and launched its own audio conferencing service earlier this year which we analyzed here and here. Earlier this week they launched video. Does this work the same? Are there any tri

Dear Slack: why is your WebRTC so weak? Dear Slack, There has been quite some buzz this week about you and WebRTC. WebRTC… kind of. Because actually you only do stuff in Chrome and your native apps: I’ve been there. Launching stuff only for Chrome. That was is late 2012. In 2016, you need to have a very good excuse to launch something with WebRTC and not support Firefox like this: Maybe you had yo

WebRTC fulfilling its promise: No plugins required Back in 2011, Facebook launched Skype-powered video calling. It used a plugin. The need for a plugin is now gone, probably along with other parts of the integration as described in this announcement. Most platforms are supported without requiring users to install something. WebRTC is starting to fulfill its promise: no plugins needed. The WebRTC r

How does Hangouts use WebRTC? webrtc-internals analysis Update: Philipp continues to reverse engineer Hangouts using chrome://webrtc-internals. Please see the bottom section for new analysis he just put together in the past couple of days based on Chrome 38. As initiators and major drivers of WebRTC, Google was often given a hard time for not supporting WebRTC in its core collaboration product. Th