[Asterisk-Users] WebPhone

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:28:51PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/29/06 05:17 Tzafrir Cohen said the following:
> >But it's not a "web phone" by any means. Writing a soft phone in HTML and
> >javascript is practically impossible. 
> 
> with the amount of interest in AJAX, DHTML and the much hyped Web 2.0, this 
> may soon be a possibility as the browsers open up more of their container 
> API. Google Desktop, anyone ? :)

Web pages, evenwith javascript, are still very limited. For instance,
they cannot establish UDP communication on their own with other places.
An arbitrary TCP connection is also not so trivial. 

Not to mention some other inherent interface problem. e.g: how do you
wait on an event from the server?

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