[Adium-devl] GMail A/V chat

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Augie Fackler wrote:
> 
> On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>
>>> Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 11, 2008, at 20:02:33, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>>>>>> Hey guys! I thought this bit of interesting news today would be
>>>>>> appropriate for this list:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://mail.google.com/videochat
>>>>>
>>>>> That just looks like they extended their in-Gmail GTalk client to
>>>>> include VV. It doesn't help us add support to our third-party client,
>>>>> other than maybe for testing purposes.
>>>>
>>>>    Yeah, but I guess I imagined at least some part of their
>>>> implementation could be cast into an XEP or something...
>>>
>>> Once Google Talk is updated to use Jingle as defined in XEPs 166, 167,
>>> and 176, you won't need a special spec to define interop with Google
>>> Talk. And that updating is on the way. Patience. :)
>>
>> If I recall correctly and if I'm not mistaken, Google at one point
>> stated it would be moving away from Jabber/XMPP for Google Talk. Is
>> that the case? And if so, did they decide to backtrack that decision?
>> Why? Anywhere I could read about all this?
> 
> IIRC they were doing this for mobile devices, not to replace the
> protocol entirely.

You're thinking about Android, not Google Talk. And even then the
back-story was a security concern about remote scripting attacks in how
they were using XMPP, not the core protocol itself.

Peter

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