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0 pointsfrik11y ago0 comments

There are three incompatible proposed web real-time communication standards.

Google, Mozilla and Opera - "WebRTC":

http://caniuse.com/#search=WebRTC and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC

Microsoft proposed another draft "CU-RTC-WEB" based on Skype details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-RTC-WEB and later "ORTC": http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/08/ortc-webrtc

Hangout vs. Skype vs. iOS messages is the deal breaker why WebRTC isn't suppored in Safari and IE. That's sad as it already works in ~1.7B devices.

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gtjrossi11y ago

We're implementing ORTC (which actually gets its origins from outside Microsoft: http://ortc.org/history/). ORTC is essentially WebRTC "1.1" and there's active standardization work going on (in both WebRTC 1.0 and ORTC specs) to make them have a high level of compatibility. ORTC enables more scalable video and simplifies the way the data is exchanged by using a vanilla JS object style (eliminates SCP Offer/Answer).

cremno11y ago

Well, that status page links to http://www.w3.org/community/ortc/, so I don't think they mean CU-RTC-WEB.

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