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Isn't the Skype plugin for Facebook video-chats made in Java, too? Sounds to me like Facebook should be one of the very first companies to want to adopt WebRTC. Not only will they become independent of Skype for video-calls, but they can offer it for everyone inside the browser, too, instead of getting them to install plugins. Hopefully they intend to make it federated though, rather than keeping it Facebook-only.


They also have the crucial directory ability that WebRTC doesn't describe.

"Hopefully they intend to make it federated though, rather than keeping it Facebook-only."

What part of Facebook's history suggests that they wouldn't make it tied to a Facebook account?


That's presuming Web browsers won't have any bugs in how they do webrtc that could allow someone to take over the browser.

Web browsers sometimes have bugs like this. I believe iPhone 1.1 had a bug in TIFF images that people used to jail break the phone


Presumably it could be sandboxed for security, being a feature of the browser itself, which Java can't be.


Sure, but what if there's a bug with your sandboxing and code can escape the sandbox? There is no magic bullet.


> I believe iPhone 1.1 had a bug in TIFF images that people used to jail break the phone

Yep, there was a buffer overflow in the libtiff. http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/LibTiff_Exploit




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