Mozilla Talkilla: real-time communication in the browser
Mozilla cranks out new technologies and ideas like crazy in recent time. The last two months alone saw a port of Epic's Unreal Engine to the Internet using WebGL, while TowTruck introduced real-time web collaboration using WebRTC.
Sören Hentschel dug out yet another project that Mozilla is currently working on. Talkilla aims to bring real-time communication to web browsers utilizing WebRTC.
The aim of the project is to allow users to communicate in real-time on the web without the use of plugins and across different web browsers provided that WebRTC is supported by the browser.
Mozilla has released several mockups that highlight what users can expect to do when they are using Talkilla. This includes making and receiving audio & video calls, sending files & web page contents, and text conversations.
The project team aims to make use of the Social API even though it is not clear at this point if users need to add at least one social provider to the browser or if Talkilla just leverages the API but lets users maintain their contact list independently of that if they prefer to do so.
The roadmap highlights that Social API is a goal for the second quarter, and that the project team targets Firefox 24 Stable as the initial release version for Talkilla. The team wants to make the feature available to all Firefox versions supporting WebRTC - from Firefox 22 on - and will look at Chrome's compatibility with the project at a later stage in development but not in the second quarter.
What may be interesting is that service provider and websites can use Talkilla to improve the browsing experience. A simple example given is that Talkilla may enable providers to provide users with access to telephone networks and other service related features.
Talkilla adds direct plugin-free communication options to the Firefox web browser that users can make use of to communicate in real-time with their contacts and to share their online experience with them.
Mozilla's plan to make APIs available to websites, so that their services can make better use of WebRTC, as the technology itself does not make available contact and presence management options.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.