On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:47:47PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:46:04PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:25:31PM +0100, Pau wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have been searching but could not find information in this respect. > >> > > >> > I have 5.2 installed on a thinkpad x220s and, while ekiga seems to work > >> > fine, I have not found a way to make empathy or pidgin work with a gtalk > >> > account. > >> > >> The Pidgin port doesn't have VV support and last time I looked at this > >> it didn't seem to work too well or at all and seemed to be issues with > >> GStreamer and/or other components Pidgin relies upon for Jingle support. > > >> > Should not WebRTC, Google Hangout, work in firefox? > >> > HTML5 should work everywhere I thought? > >> > >> HTML5 entails a variety of different standards and support for those > >> standards in each respective browser. FF and Chromium on OpenBSD still > >> do not have WebRTC support. You're making an assumption which is wrong. > > > > Another thing I forgot to mention. WebRTC is not a part of HTML5 yet. It > > is a work in progress spec and implementations that could potentially be > > a part of HTML5. > > and so the web-browser becomes the OS.
I'd rather have WebRTC and what is possible via standardized mecnanisms over Skype, plugins for GTalk, and various other services based on closed apps limited to certain major OS's. It'll be a lot easier to have an HTML5 compliant browser with support for WebRTC all over the place then it will be to get some of these services using proprietary protocols, plugins, and host apps to be ported all over the place. A lot of the focus of HTML5 is to design standardized means of doing what all too often required external plugins and all too often are limited to Windows and maybe OS X at best. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
