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Re: [rtcweb] Relation of Mozilla WebAPI announced today to RTCWEB/WebRTC work?

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterriberry@mozilla.com> Tue, 23 August 2011 17:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Relation of Mozilla WebAPI announced today to RTCWEB/WebRTC work?
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> 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.

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