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I'm honestly curious as to why they don't use browser APIs for WebEx. It seems that they don't offer any feature that plenty of others manage to implement with

• djrogers 10y ago
  Hard to do 25 user video and audio conferncing with shared desktop, chat, and recording all in HTML5. In fact I don't think I'd be out of line to say that it's impossible, so your assertion that others do so is dubious...
  • roddux 10y ago
    Isn't this what the Firefox Hello demo was for -- to prove that it's possible? Multi-user screen sharing (I didn't realise this), video conferencing, chat and audio. From your browser. It's since been discontinued but the ideas (and means to do this) live on in other projects; some listed here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hello-status https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hello-status
  • hobarrera 10y ago
    Hangouts does basically that. All of that. With just HTML5 (though they only support Chrome). appear.in does most of that too. And a dozen other tools out there. "impossible"? Hardly. It's even been done.
  • kimburgess 10y ago
    You may want to check out https://www.pexip.com https://www.pexip.com
• xenadu02 10y ago
  IIRC WebEx has an HTML5 no-plugin version; I used it to join a conference the other day. I'm glad I didn't install the plugin!