Icecomm – Add Serverless Video Chat and Data Transfer to Your Site

Re:Icecomm – Add Serverless Video Chat and Data Transfer to ... by tombrossman on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @10:44AM (#8953588)

This looks interesting but when I scrolled down I saw the message "Built for Chrome" and I'm left with the impression that this software is for Chrome only. Is that correct? I use Firefox so won't be able to use it.

If the notice is just about the website, I'm left wondering why they would include an advertisement for a browser from an advertising company on the site?

Users that are okay with ads and vendor lock-in already have plenty of bigger and more established options, so I'm still trying to figure out how this service might appeal to me - maybe not at all?

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Re:Icecomm – Add Serverless Video Chat and Data Transfer to ... by hardwaresofton on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:27AM (#8953936)

My guess is that their product is supplying the fallback TURN/STUN for WebRTC connections, and some multi-person call algorithms.

WebRTC is by no means Chrome only (see: http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-n...).

They may currently only have tested on chrome browsers (maybe someone tried it once in FF and something broke so they didn't bother).

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Re:Icecomm – Add Serverless Video Chat and Data Transfer to ... by trizko on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:46AM (#8954082)

built for chrome, still building for firefox.. lol

The 2 browsers still have not agreed completely on implementations for WebRTC, but we are definitely working on it.

Thank you

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Re:Icecomm – Add Serverless Video Chat and Data Transfer to ... by tombrossman on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @12:31PM (#8954395)

Okay, well good luck with the project then. I think I'll stick with Firefox Hello for now, but I'd love to be able to implement a 'video click to call' button on a website using WebRTC. Much like Skype but using no plugins and with the option to self-host it.

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