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WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

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Re: WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

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Post by daleharvey »

wmeredith wrote: post #18
phase_9 wrote: post #11

Yet another HTML5 "Game Changer" which has already been available as part of the Adobe Flash Platform[1] for the best part of three years. Just saying :) For those down-voting me; I find this attitude very strange. If the tools were present in another widely deployed runtime, but were heavily under utilised then why are people getting so excited about them this time around? I guess some people just love to hate Flash…

Well, stop saying. This is like arguing about the features of a lake when everyone else is playing in the ocean. Flash is proprietary and it doesn't run on mobile. These are both near show-stoppers in, and of, themselves. Combine the two and well, it doesn't matter what else it does . Until flash runs on mobile and/or is an open standard, it won't be relevant to the future of the web most developers (myself included)…

Exactly this, the fact that its available in open standards is a game changer for me.

The fact that it has been possible with various other technologies for years is not news (for me)

Re: WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

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Post by naner »

phase_9 wrote: post #11

Yet another HTML5 "Game Changer" which has already been available as part of the Adobe Flash Platform[1] for the best part of three years. Just saying :) For those down-voting me; I find this attitude very strange. If the tools were present in another widely deployed runtime, but were heavily under utilised then why are people getting so excited about them this time around? I guess some people just love to hate Flash…

I guess some people just love to hate Flash.

Yes. Flash has performance and implementation issues. And developers can't do anything to improve the situation.

Re: WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

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Post by dustismo »

dustismo wrote: post #5
AndrewDucker wrote: post #2

At the moment, NAT means that lots of connections have to go through a central server, at least to set up the connection. With IPv6, that need should vanish (providing you aren't firewalled by your router). The two things combined should remove a lot of middlemen.

Exactly. Almost everyone is behind a router so there is no way this is going to be as useful as stated in the article.

I stand corrected :). I was just reading up on STUN, it is a very interesting solution.

Re: WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

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Post by sp332 »

phase_9 wrote: post #11

Yet another HTML5 "Game Changer" which has already been available as part of the Adobe Flash Platform[1] for the best part of three years. Just saying :) For those down-voting me; I find this attitude very strange. If the tools were present in another widely deployed runtime, but were heavily under utilised then why are people getting so excited about them this time around? I guess some people just love to hate Flash…

Reliability, security, performance. Don't take my word for it http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Re: WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

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Post by vectorpush »

Look, you're kidding yourself if you think that WebRTC is going to liberate you from the prying eyes of government surveillance. As a developer, I'm very excited about the possibilities that WebRTC enables (websockets just can't cut it in many instances), but computer science is not a panacea for political apathy. P2P is nothing new, and anybody who cares to secure their online communications can already do so with ease, everyone else is happy enough to self document their activities on Facebook.
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