webrtc-adapter

Commonjs adapter.js browser compatibility shim for webRTC

About

WebRTC Adapter provides a more standards-compliant version of browser RTC objects for use in browser projects using WebRTC.

It is meant for requireJS or browserify'ed projects, which use a node-style require syntax, while still running in a chrome or firefox (at the moment) browser.

In particular, the interface exported by this module attempts to closely mirror the standard documented by the w3c. In practice, both the Chrome and Firefox implementations diverge from this standard. Previously, examples have been commonly built around adapter.js, a shim that attempts to sandardize many of these differences between browsers. However, this adapter lives canonically deep within a samples directory, and is not well suited towards inclusion as a dependency within a larger projects.

This implementation is different in 3 regards.

1. The underlying implemenation is discovered via the existance of prefixed properties, rather than explicit probing of the navigator object. This allows the code to run in firefox extensions while the original adapter could not.
2. This implementation uses node style exports, rather than attempting to export a fixed global object.
3. This implementation is released un an Apache 2.0, rather than BSD license.

Usage

var MyPeerConnection = require('webrtc-adapter').RTCPeerConnection;
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