It's certainly much better than useless in Firefox.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/demos/detail/bananabread
-Ekr
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>wrote:
> Chrome hasn't finished implementing SCTP-based data channels. I'll take
> the blame for that. It's simply taken longer than I thought. I know it
> may be a broken record at this point, but it should be done Real Soon Now
> :).
>
> And once its done, I assume it will better than useless.
> On Jul 17, 2013 3:11 PM, "Eric Rescorla" <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:46 AM, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I agree, it was supossed to have operative DataChannels last December,
>>> and the fact is that 7 months ago the proposed date they are fairly useless
>>> and real-world usage of WebRTC are mainly proof of concept... I have ear
>>> people saying WebRTC is a hype and others that's a technology could get to
>>> be desacredited due to release it too early as it's hapenning now, only
>>> don't now if just by an unlucky accident or it's being done this way in
>>> purposse (too much decentrliced power on the browsers out of control of the
>>> traditional owners...).
>>>
>> I'd like to focus on this point. In what way are data channels as
>> currently specified
>> "fairly useless"?
>>
>> -Ekr
>>
>>
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