
So let’s take a quick look at the “excellent features” under quite interesting circumstances - running in Chrome. Tsahi Levent-Levi had some useful comments on that as well. The Jitsi folks just did a comparison of the quality recently in response to that. The relationship between Zoom and WebRTC is a difficult one as shown in this statement from their website:

This got me very interested – how are they making calls without WebRTC? RTCPeerConnection like a WebRTC call should have. GetUserMedia being used for accessing camera and microphone but no Opening chrome://webrtc-internals showed only The quality was acceptable and we had a good chat for half an hour. It worked, removing the download barrier.

Chris Koehncke was excited to see how this worked (watch him at the upcoming KrankyGeek event!) so we gave it a try. Zoom has a web client that allows a participant to join meetings without downloading their app. Rube Goldberg’s Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin (1931) Zoom recently started using WebRTC’s DataChannels so we have added some new details at the end in the DataChannels section. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 23, 2018.
