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Frankly, this is Mozilla's reaction to Google's http://www.webrtc.org/ http://www.webrtc.org/ To put it in perspective, Mozilla has no mobile platform and is c
by BrandonSmith 15y ago
Frankly, this is Mozilla's reaction to Google's http://www.webrtc.org/ http://www.webrtc.org/
To put it in perspective, Mozilla has no mobile platform and is crying for relevance.
Apple -> iOS/WebKit
Google -> Android/WebKit
Mozilla -> ???/Fennec
By getting desktop browsers to implement telephony and other collaboration APIs, I'm sure their hope is to get mobile browsers to likewise expose the precious voice and video APIs of the mobile handsets. And perhaps by doing this, lines between browsers on mobile devices are blurred to where Fennec has a role.
- sylvinus 15y ago"The WebRTC initiative is a project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera." http://www.webrtc.org/ http://www.webrtc.org/
- FrankBooth 15y agoWebRTC is a realtime voice/video communications API, and Mozilla are working with Google on shipping an implementation. Frankly, your tone is trollish.
- BrandonSmith 15y agoYou're right. It did come off trollish. Wasn't my intent. I'm sorry to both parties. Both WebAPI and WebRTC will produce awesome collaboration apps. Wins all around. But how, exactly, do the two fit together? Is WebRTC a low-level implementation of protocols, codecs, and transports whereas WebAPI provide the friendly developer-oriented APIs? Will WebAPI provide hooks for standard widgets for dialer, SMS, contacts, etc?
- MatthewPhillips 15y ago> But how, exactly, do the two fit together? Is WebRTC a low-level implementation of protocols, codecs, and transports whereas WebAPI provide the friendly developer-oriented APIs? They're not related. WebRTC is a video chat/conferencing project. > Will WebAPI provide hooks for standard widgets for dialer, SMS, contacts, etc? Yes, that's its precise purpose.
- hrabago 15y ago> > Will WebAPI provide hooks for standard widgets for dialer, SMS, contacts, etc? > Yes, that's its precise purpose. I'm not seeing any indication that standard widgets are even in their goals. For instance, their Telephony API [1] lists functions that an application implementing its own UI might call, but nothing that indicates that those are UI widgets or expose UI-like functionalities. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674726 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674726
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoWell, this is WebAPI after all, not WebUI... but why do you think they should implement UI widgets? That goes against the grain of the web.
- hrabago 15y agoI don't think they should. In fact I hope they don't.