Turn Any Web Browser Into a Phone With JQuery

by dwynings • 16 years ago

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peteysd• 16 years ago

Hmm. Not quite any browser. Only those that run Flash, it seems.

alexyoung• 16 years ago

If anyone is wondering how this might be done without Flash/Java, WhatWG have spec'd recording for the HTML5 Stream API but I don't think it's properly defined or implemented in any browser yet:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

alanh2• 16 years ago

Why wouldn't Comet or various long polling techniques work? Or web sockets?

pshapiro• 16 years ago

Here's something else that might be of some interest to you. Slightly off topic -- video chat implemented in HTML5.

https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond-ht...

akalsey3• 16 years ago

Among other things, it doesn't yet define what codecs would be used in the audio capture. There's also a lot of comments in the draft that amount to "we'll figure out how this part would work later."

http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ is probably a better link if you're interested in this stuff.

Phono is intended to be a unified jQuery API for real time communications (audio, video, chat, screen sharing). The Flash movie is an implementation detail -- the API is intended to be implementable with other media capture methods when they're available, including HTML5.

owkaye• 16 years ago

I tried it. The website said it was ringing before my phone rang, then it said connected before my phone rang. Then my phone rang and I picked up, but no voice was transmitted in either direction. Interesting concept but it doesn't work for me.

varenc• 16 years ago

Works great for me. I wonder what people will use this for...

404error• 16 years ago

Maybe for customer service?

akalsey3• 16 years ago

Or maybe you'd like to build the next Skype?

estel• 16 years ago

Some earlier comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798036

DTrejo• 16 years ago

Turn any phone into a video-game controller with nodaphone!

Source: http://github.com/DTrejo/nodaphone Demo: http://dtrejo.no.de/

(Disclaimer: my project)

JoeBracken• 16 years ago

Neat application.

tlrobinson• 16 years ago

Can someone please explain the obsession with making everything a jQuery plugin. Why is $.phono() better than phono()?

Has "jQuery plugin" just become a euphemism for "this project requires jQuery and add itself to the $ object"?

ashearer• 16 years ago

Technical rationale aside, it's been a brilliantly successful symbiotic marketing strategy for both jQuery and its plugins.

invisible• 16 years ago

I am very excited about the prospect of Phono Gateway :). I have a service that's begging for Phono (as a resell/addon), but I need Phono Gateway to deploy it internally as a proof-of-concept.

Turn Any Web Browser Into a Phone With JQuery

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