By Zach Walton
WebRTC is the future of Web communication if the W3C
has anything to say about it. It's an HTML5 technology that turns your
browser into a video/audio communication tool. The only problem standing
in its way was that it would only work if both users were on the same
browser, but the folks at Mozilla and Google have found a way around it.
Google and Mozilla
jointly announced the RTCPeerConnection today that brings
interoperability to WebRTC clients on both Firefox and Chrome. This will
allow users of either browser to engage in video/audio chats by just
using the power of the Web instead of relying on third-party plugins.
RTCPeerConnection is currently available on the Chrome 25 beta and the
latest build of Firefox Nightly. Once you download one of those, set the
media.peerconnection.enabled to true in about:config and you'll be set.
For the developers out there, Mozilla has a lengthy tutorial on how to bring RTCPeerConnection to your apps at its blog post. Check it out to get all the details.
source : web pro news
