Re: [rtcweb] realiable data service

[Randell Jesup <[e-mail]>]

On 7/20/2011 5:43 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
> On 2011-07-19 19:09, Serge Lachapelle wrote:
>> There are many very established ways to transfer files from a web
>> browser. Dropbox, Google Docs, yousendit, mobileme, not counting the
>> media specific ways, such as Flickr, Spotify, Youtube, etc... All
>> offering great APIs for uploads, ACLs, etc...
>>
>> Seems like re-inventing the wheel.
> I tend to agree. What the data channel of rtcweb could provide is 
> shorter latency - but to me that does not seem relevant for a file 
> transfer.

For some use-cases that's important (shorter on average, not guaranteed) 
- for example games.  Others like the Google Wave demo Tim posted 
(https://babyis60.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/my-astricon-googlewave-ibook-skype-demo/) 
would be painful (and hurt usability) to implement using drop-box like 
transfers.

For other cases (file xfer), yes you can use those - but the problem is 
that when you want to transfer to the person you're chatting with, you 
would need to use another service, agree on it, deal with the 
semantics/accounts/limits/etc for that service, etc.  A horrible user 
experience.  Even if it was "hidden" by the application, it would be 
problematic and subject to breakage continually.

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Randell Jesup
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