- From: Timothy B. Terriberry <tterriberry@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:41:53 -0700
- To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- CC: rtcweb@ietf.org, public-webrtc@w3.org, Jonas Sicking <sicking@mozilla.com>
Harald Alvestrand wrote: > On 08/23/11 19:59, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote: >>> Can anyone from Mozilla please comment on how the "WebAPI" announced >>> today with the goal to " provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 >>> to 6 months" relates to the work happening in RTCWEB/WebRTC? >> >> This is more along the lines of getting access to the APIs needed to >> instruct a mobile phone to initiate a phone call, rather than to host >> that call inside the browser. Presumably also with some way to detect >> that your on a device that supports that capability at all. > The blog post sounds like a virtual clone of the W3C Device API charter. > > Is that your planned venue for standardizing these APIs? I'm not sure that's been worked out yet, but before I say too many incorrect things, let me CC Jonas so he can correct me. > I can't say I'm overly happy with the amount of imagination spent on the > name, but the effort seems to make sense! Well, I didn't name the thing, but keep in mind that initiating phone calls is only one small part of the total effort.
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