WebRTC "polyfill" over realtime channels (webxdc-x-WebRTC)

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Real-time communication (with 10 second delay)

The problem As we know, Delta Chat, and therefore its webxdc implementation, is not really suitable for real-time communication, due to (I assume) the fact that it’s e-mail-based. You can’t send several messages per second, as you would with WebSocket or WebRTC. In fact, currently there is a throttle in deltachat-core that pauses the sending of messages to make it just 1 batch per 10 seconds at a sustained rate. See, for reference So, it’s not really possible to write apps such as video-confer…