WebRTC is a combination of several standards maintained by two different standards bodies. Under the hood, there’s a JavaScript specification for how browsers consume WebRTC connections.

In IETF terms, this would be a browser-based user agent (WebRTC UA), which “conforms to both the protocol specification and the JavaScript API” as part of its interoperability compliance. For the ...

Firefox Beta 22 for Desktop Let’s take a look at the new desktop beta first, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest addition by far is full WebRTC support (preliminary support ...

Right on schedule, Mozilla released the latest stable version of its Firefox browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 18 is the first stable version to feature Mozilla's new IonMonkey ...

We did some hands-on testing and used some of the new JavaScript APIs to make an HTML5 photo booth. WebRTC is a proposed set of Web standards for real-time communication.

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Furthermore, the JavaScript APIs involved in enabling this peer-to-peer communication are simple enough that you can create a WebRTC client with just five or six lines of JavaScript and HTML.

Microsoft’s upcoming Skype for Web service will use the new WebRTC standard so it works in all modern browsers—but not right away: Early users will have to download a plugin that’s only ...

Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most ...

The VoIP and WebRTC worlds continue to converge, evidenced recently by a new service launched by Voxbone that allows enterprises and communications providers to use Voxbone’s global private VoIP ...