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Re:New Chromecast 2015 by ohitsdom on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @02:02PM (#10298197)
You can cast tabs from Chrome on Linux. What support are you asking about? Any developer can choose to implement the Chromecast API.
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Re:New Chromecast 2015 by lmedinas on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @02:41PM (#10298522)
Where is the API ? The last I've known they only have it available in Android and iOS so no desktop yet.
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Re:New Chromecast 2015 by finnn on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @02:54PM (#10298617)
It's available as a Chrome (and maybe Firefox?) extension[0], then websites can use some JavaScript APIs to control it (with user permission of course)[1].

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadge... [1]: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender

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Re:New Chromecast 2015 by geofft on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:35PM (#10298948)
On developers.google.com just like you'd expect. :) https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/downloads

I downloaded CastHelloVideo-chrome, put it on my webserver, opened the URL in Chrome, and it worked as advertised. Granted, it does require Chrome and the Google Cast extension, which is as far as I know proprietary.

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Re:New Chromecast 2015 by lmedinas on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:38PM (#10348906)
Again it's Chrome only so not a general Desktop API
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