WebRTC on Blackberry 10
Our friends at Hookflash kicked off the week by announcing support for WebRTC on Blackberry 10. Erik Lagerway followed up on webrtc-discuss:
Just thought I would let everyone know that we have finished porting Google’s WebRTC media stack in entirety to QNX / Blackberry 10. Currently in our Open Peer github repo, we plan on getting this back upstream, if Google will have it.
WebRTC Tech Lead Justin Uberti, welcomed the news and laid down the ground rules for contributed ports:
Erik, thanks for letting us know. Always good to see someone expanding the WebRTC ecosystem!
Assuming the porting adheres to our style guidelines and our practices for platform-specific code, we can help land this. The only caveat is that we will not be able to fully support it through our trybots and tests. When the build breaks, you will need to fix.
Firefox 22 Hits Beta
On Tuesday, Firefox 21 was released, which leaves only one more version before WebRTC is enabled by default. Firefox 22 is currently scheduled for release on June 24. If you’re impatient, you can get a preview in Firefox Beta, Aurora, or if you’re really brave, Nightly.
Jon Fingas, writing for Engadget, has more on Firefox 22:
Though Mozilla has long been a proponent of WebRTC for plugin-free video and voice chat, it hasn’t been ready to enable the full protocol in Firefox as a matter of course. It’s more confident as of this week…
Google IO
Justin Uberti and Sam Dutton wrapped up the week with a presentation on WebRTC at Google IO. Both the slides and the video are now available for your viewing pleasure.
Janko Roetgers covered the session highlights for GigaOm:
WebRTC, the new technology that enables plugin-free voice and video chat within the browser, should be available on more than one billion unique endpoints (think: desktop browsers and mobile devices) “within a week,” according to Google’s WebRTC engineering lead Justin Uberti.
Endpoints++
Last but not least, Tsahi Levent-Levi has a few suggestions for UC vendors and customers in our favorite post of the week:
All of the room systems and endpoints you are installing? Make them pure WebRTC capable – have them run an HTML5 browser and let Java Script do the rest. Have your own solution use that type of a deployment. All of your legacy products? Have a gateway for them to access the system.
+1 to that.