Firefox support

[peers]

Firefox support

[michelle]

No major reason, just that as of now there isn't too much demand for it, and additionally there is no interoperability with Chrome. The code required to support Firefox will add a lot of complexity and additional branching in the library.

There is some unfinished Firefox code in the library currently that's been commented out, so you can get an idea of the stuff that's different (exchanging port numbers between Peers, creating offers in different places, handlers like onnegotiationneeded that don't quite fire, requiring a media stream to make a DataChannel connection, etc).

But you're right--there's no major reason that we should continue to hold off on supporting Firefox. I was actually going to work on Firefox support this weekend, and that's become a higher priority for me than supporting media streams (there are lots of libraries out there for that already that have great APIs!).

[michelle]

A bunch of bugs were closed today in Firefox, so I will push to make PeerJS Firefox compatible by the end of next week.

[michelle]

Update: Worked on supporting multiple DataChannels instead--this breaks Firefox stuff I was previously working on, so ETA is unknown as of now. :(

[michelle]

Closed by 72424b3

[michelle]

Reopening this because the latest Firefox Nightly builds break things.

Release will need to be delayed to find a suitable workaround.

[michelle]

Currently confirmed to work for Nightly 22.0a1 (2013-03-04). See https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/peerjs/WG8U-16pNoE

[michelle]

For reference: http://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/DataChannel_changes.html

[piranna]

Thanks for the info :-)

2013/4/24 Michelle Bu [email protected]

For reference:
http://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/DataChannel_changes.html

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[michelle]

Yeah I'm back to working on this today. Can't believe I didn't find that earlier--hopefully it will be straightforward now given that information :).

[piranna]

I hope so, seems that it got to be simplified... I'll take a look on it
after my exams (about June or July... :-S ) to try to use native ones at
last :-)

2013/4/24 Michelle Bu [email protected]

Yeah I'm back to working on this today. Can't believe I didn't find that
earlier--hopefully it will be straightforward now given that information :).

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