ORTC

MS Open Tech is releasing a prototype implementation of the ORTC API spec published by the W3C ORTC Community Group. This implementation demonstrates an easily implementable API that is consistent with the principles for a WebRTC API that Microsoft has been advocating for the past year.

WebRTC Video

This new CU-RTC-Web prototype continues our exploration of alternatives to the SDP Offer/Answer approach. The CU-RTC-Web approach is based on two basic principles: that JavaScript APIs for real time communications should not be based on passing under-specified SDP blobs and should not require implementation of the SDP Offer/Answer state machine. These principles, first articulated in the original CU-RTC-Web proposal have continued as basic tenets within our prototyping efforts, which have demonstrated the practicality of the approach with running code.

WebRTC Roaming

With our latest prototype, we are demonstrating another important interoperability scenario - roaming between two different connections (e.g. Wi-Fi and 3G, or Wi-Fi and Ethernet) - with negligible impact on the user experience. The simple, flexible, expressive APIs underlying the CU-RTC-Web architecture allowed us to implement this important scenario without introducing any changes in the spec, just by building the appropriate JavaScript code.

Pointer Events for WebKit (updated)

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. and the Microsoft Corp. IE teams have been working with our colleagues across the industry, engaging developers to test and provide feedback on the Pointer Events specification, and incorporating all the received feedback into this Last Call Working Draft. To demonstrate cross-browser interoperability for Pointer Events, we are releasing an updated version of the patch for Webkit originally posted in December.

HTTP Speed + Mobility

This prototype implements the websocket-based session layer described in the HTTP Speed+Mobility proposal Microsoft contributed to the IETF httpbis workgroup, as well as parts of the multiplexing logic incorporated from Google's SPDY proposal.

Video Captioning

The new HTML5 track element can be used to point to a caption file that contains a written
representation of the dialog or actions in a HTML5 video

FileAPI

FileAPI is a W3C draft Web specification for representing file objects in web applications, as well as programmatically selecting them and accessing their data.

WebRTC

In support of our earlier contribution to the W3C WebRTC Working Group, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., (MS Open Tech) is now publishing a working prototype implementation of the CU-RTC-Web proposal to demonstrate a real world interoperability scenario - in this interop case, voice chatting between Chrome on a Mac and IE10 on Windows via the API.

HTTP/2.0

Through our continuing support of the HTTP/2.0 standardization through code, we have made some updates to our prototypes. We have moved from the Node.js implementation used server-side by our earlier prototypes to a modified implementation of an existing Apache module for which we are making available in the associated patch.

Device Orientation Events

This prototype is an implementation of the W3C DeviceOrientation Event Specification draft on HTML5Labs.com. This specification defines new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a device. Such APIs will let web developers easily deliver advanced web user experiences leveraging modern devices sensors.

19 Aug 2014

• Microsoft, Google, Hookflash and others Co-Author Real-Time Communications Specification

25 Apr 2014

• Updated ORTC API Prototype Released

19 Mar 2014

• HTTP/2 – “Nearing Completion”

31 Jan 2014

• HTTP/2 – Closing on the Final Design

30 Jan 2014

• Pointer Events Progress: Mozilla and Blink Communities Reach a Significant Engineering Milestone

21 Jan 2014

• New HTTP/2.0 Katana Prototype Available

03 Jan 2014

• Embedding an adaptive streaming video within your HTML5 application

06 Nov 2013

• ORTC walkthrough and realtime communications interop demo at IETF 88

24 Oct 2013

• HTTP/2.0 comes to town – Microsoft Open Tech hosts the IETF HTTP/2.0 interim meeting

22 Oct 2013

• Pointer Events interoperability public demo of Firefox build integrating MS Open Tech’s contribution