So, Chromebook owners as well as Linux users can finally use the Beta version of Skype for Web and connect with their friends via instant messaging, but for video calls they still have to use an installed Skype app on a PC or laptop.Īnother important thing you should know is that you have to use the Safari on Mac OS X and Chrome on Windows in order to be able to use the Skype web service. Now, your browser can support video and voice calls, instant messaging and file sharing and all these thanks to Skype for Web, the service that brought all the VoIP’s popular features on the browsers. If until now, you had to download and install a Skype app in order to use the service, things just got easier.
The browser continues to dominate the the platform upon which applications are served to users - and that’s not about to change.The most logical step is now making it a one-stop information & communication hub for users and that’s what WebRTC is about to do.After opening a Web Beta version for Skype, available only in US and UK, this week Microsoft has rolled out the service for the whole world to try. The Skype team announced earlier in a blog post, that after a week full of hard work, they can launch the service Skype Web to the world (beta version). The implication of this technology is that users will no longer need stand-alone applications like Skype, Vonage or Viber or even traditional Telecoms to make voice calls as long they have browsers that are compatible with the standard. To try this yourself, you’ll need desktop Chrome 25 Beta and Firefox Nightly for Desktop Thanks to the work and participation of the W3C and IETF communities in developing the platform, Chrome and Firefox can now communicate by using standard technologies such as the Opus and VP8 codecs for audio and video, DTLS-SRTP for encryption, and ICE for networking.
In order to succeed, a web-based communications platform needs to work across browsers. The goal of this technology is to offer developers rich, secure communications, integrated directly into their web applications. Last week according to the Chromium blog, the technology has made another giant leap where Chrome and Firefox can “talk” to each other for the first time.
I first wrote about WebRTC last year where it was still in infancy stage. However, now a technology that enables browser-to-browser communication called WebRTC spearheaded by Google and Mozilla is about to change the way that online users communicate.
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