HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by urbanmbeatz » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 11:29 AM UTC

HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK
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Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by arfrank » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 12:27 PM UTC

Awesome! While it is still a long way away this is a first step in getting HTML5 to be a real alternative as a full replacement to native apps for mobile phones. Obviously optimizations might need to be made for HTML5 to be comparable in speed to native apps, but imagine mobile applications that are mainly write once, run on most phones.

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by carson » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 12:55 PM UTC

This is an interesting experiment and should hopefully encourage other people to do the same. I wonder if it will push people to think about breaking webkit out of the browser for certain uses. It would be interesting to see something like this done with WebGL for a game.

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by grep » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 1:14 PM UTC

Will this work in current browsers?

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by arfrank » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 1:19 PM UTC

grep wrote: post #4

Will this work in current browsers?

Not yet. They did mention in the comments that they would try and integrate it back into webkit.

There is also a link in the comments to a new issue for the chromium project of them adding in "device" support: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55377

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by kjell » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 1:22 PM UTC

grep wrote: post #4

Will this work in current browsers?

No. But they say they'll submit their code back into webkit as fast as they can. So hopefully soon!

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by sjtgraham » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 2:14 PM UTC

They also extended Websockets to support binary data. Given the lack of a raw binary type in Javascript, I am really interested in how this was implemented.

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by nkassis » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 3:50 PM UTC

sjtgraham wrote: post #7

They also extended Websockets to support binary data. Given the lack of a raw binary type in Javascript, I am really interested in how this was implemented.

Maybe with this stuff? http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#dfn-readAsBinaryStrin...

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by bhellman1 » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 4:07 PM UTC

Impressive - ~How long until this is type of method is supported in HTML5?

Re: HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

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Post by apgwoz » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 4:34 PM UTC

carson wrote: post #3

This is an interesting experiment and should hopefully encourage other people to do the same. I wonder if it will push people to think about breaking webkit out of the browser for certain uses. It would be interesting to see something like this done with WebGL for a game.

People have already thought about making regular apps with webkit and other browser components. In fact, it's a very old idea, but one that we seem to keep coming back to. I hope to see the trend continue, as I think it'll help put a stop to these nonsense platforms like AIR and Flash.