VOIP + Flash player = DamnCool++;

Filed under: Flash, Flex — Wrote by Campbell on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 @ 1:32 am

Hahaha ok, so you get my feelings on this topic from my post title. I caught a link to an interesting article Via BeeDigital. And in that article a few interesting things were of note.

"Sources say, Dr. Henry Sinnreich, generally known as “The Godfather” of SIP (the Session Initiation Protocol) is helping the team" the team being the Dev team for what we used to know as Breeze. They also go on to say "The charter for the start-up is to enhance “Flash” and add support for various voice-over-IP protocols including SIP" in the article which I cant be sure how true that is.

We looked at parsing SIP headers a while back in flash and really the SIP protocol is very similar to HTTP headers, so it wasnt going to be to hard of a job. But imagine VOIP in your flash app. Like I said in the title DamnCool++;

I just thought this should be on everyones radar but time for one last quote from the article that might warm the cockles of your heart. "Sources say that touching Flash Player is like messing with God inside Adobe". Good on Adobe for not bloating the code base. Maybe its time to start breaking off functionality to be downloaded only when needed. Or would that approach break what a great reputation flash has built over the years. Im sure the Adobe Gods are fielding all suggestions, while guarding the pearly white gates at the front of flashes SVN repository.

8 Comments   -
  • Comment by Josh | September 26, 2006 @ 4:30 am

    Actually, I heard they use Perforce ;)

  • Comment by Campbell | September 26, 2006 @ 8:45 am

    Haha Man perforce actually looks pretty cool.

  • Comment by Arun | September 26, 2006 @ 4:56 pm

    Damn cool. As long as Flash player/plugin doesnt get a big bulky download, I’m happy :)

  • Comment by Jolyon | September 26, 2006 @ 9:19 pm

    I think you’ll find that “breaking off functionality to be downloaded only when needed” is going to be a huge feature of Apollo, try to imagine building your Flash/VOIP app for the desktop with full control over the OS’s sound input/output.

    Now THAT’s damn cool :-)

  • Comment by Campbell | September 27, 2006 @ 3:15 am

    Hahaha yeah bro that is going to be cool, and if only I could get flash to make coffee….hmmm time to hit the suggestion email addy at adobe..;)

  • Comment by Elliott | October 18, 2006 @ 1:57 am

    If we had a NellyMoser decoder we would have had a Flash SIP client a long time ago (e.g. FlashFone). SIP is not the challenge.

  • Comment by Campbell | October 18, 2006 @ 10:15 am

    Yeah SIP is merely a protocol much like http. Maybe the decoder is in the works….hmmm

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