For any fellow remote mobile research nerds, this is huge news. The upcoming spec for WebRTC that allows peer-to-peer video and eventually screen-sharing is working on Android and iOS in development versions of FireFox. What this means is that in the near future apps like, ahem, ethnio, will be able to easily allow for webcam and screen-sharing right from the browser. No more external plug-ins or Java or Flash stupidity. Well, on cool browsers. Suck it, Microsoft and your proprietary use of WebRTC.

Here’s the article:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/12/WebRTC-hits-Firefox-Android-and-iOS