The vital feature missing from Hello Conversations at the moment is text
chat, vital for setting up: ("Hang on a sec, I can't find my !@#$
microphone!").Regarding HTTP/2, Apple seem to be very quiet about this so far. On 25 February 2015 at 16:43, Stephen Loosley <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:53:16 +1100 > > > > Not everyone thinks HTTP/2 and SPDY is such a good thing. It has > privacy issues among others. > > Maybe a little harsh matey? HTTP/2 is the latest Internet Engineering > Steering Group spec > we have, including regarding privacy. Large numbers of people have > contributed to HTTP/2 > but the most > active participants are volunteer engineers from projects like Firefox, > Twitter, Microsoft's HTTP stack, Curl and Akamai, as well as HTTP > implementers in languages like Python, Ruby, NodeJS. > https://github.com/http2/http2.github.io/blob/master/faq/index.md > > So it's been developed by volunteers, and then incorporated into Firefox > also by volunteers. > > The alternative is going back to Google's SPDY, which even Google is > ditching for HTTP/2 in this month's and all future versions of Chrome. And > finally all web browsers now use HTTP/2 over secure TLS implementations and > so sessions are much more secure than previous HTTP implementations. Sure, > it's not perfect, but it is free, and, the volunteers are certainly trying. > > In terms of the Mozilla Hello Conversations Beta resource, it'll be > interesting to see how this Skype-like feature takes off. It could be a > real bonus, the first global communications system built directly into > browsers. I believe this version of Conversations also shares Wi-Fi and > the signals of mobile > devices for enhanced geolocation services and provides support for context > aware applications. And, this Firefox Hello free video-chat service also > allows users > to talk to contacts on Firefox, Chrome or Opera. Apparently in future > Mozilla is adding more features to the Conversations live video chat > project such as screen sharing and web-based collaboration. > > So altogether, a pretty fair open source effort by thousands of world > volunteers one might say? > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
