On 26/03/2020 20:59, Simon Key wrote:
> My impression was that at about the same time XMPP started to look good,
> along came things like Websockets and WebRTC, and the ability to use video
> and audio devices in a browser, so it became easy for anyone with a bit of
> JavaScript knowledge to bang together a fully featured client. That's when
> we started to get the proliferation of new stuff like Facebook chat and
> Hangouts, swiftly followed by their smartphone equivalents. Seemed a bit
> of a shame to me when something more inter-operable based on XMPP would
> have been nicer.
WebSockets and WebRTC only provide raw datacoms for messages or media
streams. They're at a lower level of the stack than XMPP.
Ray
