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Safari is my #1 browser to download chrome. It seems to always fall behind the HTML5 features that matters most. For example, WebRTC lets developers integrate real time audio/video/data awesomeness into websites and its readily available in firefox and chrome, but not safari.

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>For example, WebRTC lets developers integrate real time audio/video/data awesomeness into websites and its readily available in firefox and chrome, but not safari.

And how does WebRTC matters for everyday use at the moment?

I haven't seen anything that is not a tech-demo or similar relying on it.

It would be nice to have it in Safari too (and I use Chrome myself), but it's hardly a deal breaker (or even relevant).

Arguably, it is because the lack of browser support that makes WebRTC "not matter for everyday use". We would see a lot more use if IE and Safari would implement it. And not only for video conferencing (such as https://appear.in), but also for multiplayer gaming, filesharing, audio recording+++

It's relevant to developers, in that some of what we do is tech-demos.

We've developed a WebRTC PeerConnection video chat, and it is not so great just yet. It barely works in Firefox, and is all around buggy and constantly changing.

WebRTC is not yet a standard, video codec is still being discussed, so not surprised Apple is being conservative. Google is much more experimental with Chrome.

Its disappointing that your complaint was about WebRTC. I was really hoping it will be something else.

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