Chrome team has announced support for WebRTC in the latest dev channel and canary build. The WebRTC framework brings real-time communications in the browser.

“The WebRTC framework enables high-quality communications on the web such as network, audio and video components used in voice and video chat applications. These components, when implemented in a browser, can be accessed through a JavaScript API, enabling developers to easily implement their own RTC web app”, explains the WebRTC website.

To enable WebRTC in dev channel (or canary build) of Google Chrome, users should launch the browser with the following command line switch: –enable-media-stream. As this technology is evolving rapidly, we hope to see many applications build using it in the coming days.

WebRTC is aimed to build web applications with voice and video capabilities which can be run directly in the browser, and independent of proprietary plug-ins, operating system and communication platform. Moreover, WebRTC offers simple JavaScript APIs to build and maintain such apps which simplify development.

More information on WebRTC is available here.