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The high friction with Jitsi is browser permissions. You need to interact with both the webpage and the browser's chrome to set up and switch media devices, whi
by franga2000 6y ago
The high friction with Jitsi is browser permissions. You need to interact with both the webpage and the browser's chrome to set up and switch media devices, which can get confusing even for someone with deep knowledge of the browser APIs, let alone for someone who couldn't tell a UAC prompt from a MsgBox().
That's why Zoom uses all these dark patterns to get native code running as soon as possible and as privileged as possible so it can do all the work for you. See also: Mac installer disaster.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoBrowser just says "give permission to use mic and camera" and you click yes. If you click no, then I think you're going to struggle to intuit how to proceed; but it's no harder than navigating UAC dialogs to install software, much easier IMO. None of the olds in my family had a problem. YMMV I guess.
- franga2000 6y agoExcept that the permission popup is very difficult to spot and disappears if you touch anything other than it, after which it's pretty hard to find again. It also asks you to select an input device and if you pick wrong, you might have to track it down again to fix that. On a fast and stable machine and Internet connection this is much less of an issue, but in my experience at least, that is not the norm.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoCool, thanks for expanding on that.