[LINK] Firefox Browser, full HTTP/2 support

[Paul Bolger]

The vital feature missing from Hello Conversations at the moment is text
chat, vital for setting up: ("Hang on a sec, I can't find my !@#$
microphone!").

Regarding HTTP/2, Apple seem to be very quiet about this so far.

On 25 February 2015 at 16:43, Stephen Loosley <stephenloosley at outlook.com>
wrote:

> > From: kim.holburn at gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:53:16 +1100
> >
> > Not everyone thinks HTTP/2 and SPDY is such a good thing.  It has
> privacy issues among others.
>
> Maybe a little harsh matey?  HTTP/2 is the latest Internet Engineering
> Steering Group spec
> we have, including regarding privacy. Large numbers of people have
> contributed to HTTP/2
> but the most
> active participants are volunteer engineers from projects like Firefox,
> Twitter, Microsoft's HTTP stack, Curl and Akamai, as well as HTTP
> implementers in languages like Python, Ruby, NodeJS.
> https://github.com/http2/http2.github.io/blob/master/faq/index.md
>
> So it's been developed by volunteers, and then incorporated into Firefox
> also by volunteers.
>
> The alternative is going back to Google's SPDY, which even Google is
> ditching for HTTP/2 in this month's and all future versions of Chrome. And
> finally all web browsers now use HTTP/2 over secure TLS implementations and
> so sessions are much more secure than previous HTTP implementations. Sure,
> it's not perfect, but it is free, and, the volunteers are certainly trying.
>
> In terms of the Mozilla Hello Conversations Beta resource, it'll be
> interesting to see how this Skype-like feature takes off.  It could be a
> real bonus, the first global communications system built directly into
> browsers. I  believe this version of Conversations also shares Wi-Fi and
> the signals of mobile
> devices for enhanced geolocation services and provides support for context
> aware applications. And, this Firefox Hello free video-chat service also
> allows users
> to talk to contacts on Firefox, Chrome or Opera. Apparently in future
> Mozilla is adding more features to the Conversations live video chat
> project such as screen sharing and web-based collaboration.
>
> So altogether, a pretty fair open source effort by thousands of world
> volunteers one might say?
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
>
>
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