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Ralph Giles giles at mozilla.com
Wed Oct 5 11:55:21 PDT 2011


On 05/10/11 11:37 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

> I would assume the part that the Skype plugin is being used for, as the
> only other part of the chat that isn't HTML/Javascript code is the
> Jabber connectivity, which isn't strictly a plugin per-say, more an
> additional interface to the raw data that is enabled through server
> modules.

The Audio/Video chat part, which supports similar uses to the Skype
plugin, is part of the WebRTC effort. Jabber connectivity is something
you can currently do by tunnelling the stanzas (messages) over XHR or
WebSockets.

Hope that helps orient you,
 -r



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