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Lennart Grahl
Personal blog · lgrahl.de/articlesprogrammingweb
Lennart Grahl's personal blog at lgrahl.de covers programming and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Demystifying WebRTC's Data Channel Message Size Limitations”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for a real-world WebRTC guide and a article on the data channel size limit. One commenter corrects the guide's 1200-byte data channel limit and points to a chunking library.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lennart Grahl's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Demystifying WebRTC's Data Channel Message Size Limitations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-01
What Hacker News says?
Nice guide. In contrast to what the article says about data channel size limitations (1200 bytes), 16 KiB seems to be safe: https://lgrahl.de/articles/demystifying-webrtc-dc-size-limit... In case you want to do chunked data channel transfers but don't want to implement the chunking yourself, I wrote a library to do just that: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@saltyrtc/chunked-dc It's based on this specification: https:…
Comment linking /articles/demystifying-webrtc-dc-size-limit.html
on “A real world guide to WebRTC”Submitted Demystifying WebRTC's Data Channel Message Size Limitations as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying WebRTC's Data Channel Message Size Limitations as a story · 1 points
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