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WebRTC Data Channel buffer monitoring with the "bufferedamountlow" event

Category

Realtime / Communication

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 46)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This event allows pages to use WebRTC DataChannels for high-throughput applications more efficiently and conveniently, by removing the need to use timer-based polling for output buffer management.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=496700

Docs: https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-pc/pull/233 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2015May/thread.html#msg73 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannel/onbufferedamountlow

Samples: https://github.com/webrtc/samples/blob/gh-pages/src/content/datachannel/datatransfer/js/main.js#L127 https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/datachannel/datatransfer/

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