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Celebrating ten years of WebM and WebRTC

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  1. dblohm7
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    I'm actually pretty disappointed with how WebRTC turned out. When Chrome and Firefox first got this working, they celebrated by connecting with one another over WebRTC. Both teams simultaneously...

    I'm actually pretty disappointed with how WebRTC turned out.

    When Chrome and Firefox first got this working, they celebrated by connecting with one another over WebRTC. Both teams simultaneously published blog posts containing the announcement.

    Years later we're in a state where Chromium went and added a bunch of stuff to WebRTC. Now many of the sites that use WebRTC follow what Chromium does and we've lost a lot of that original interoperability.

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  2. skybrian
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    This isn't real news, just an arbitrary milestone, but it seems like it could have gone a lot differently and probably worse. Maybe we wouldn't be taking it for granted that of course you can do...

    This isn't real news, just an arbitrary milestone, but it seems like it could have gone a lot differently and probably worse. Maybe we wouldn't be taking it for granted that of course you can do video chat in a browser, and all the essential tech is open source?

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