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by yebyen 2543 days ago
If Zoom has a web-based client, I haven't seen it. I know that WebEx has a web-only client. I thought you had them like, really confused, y'know?

Turns out there is a Zoom Web Client though and I'm all wet.
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giancarlostoro 2543 days ago
All good, but yeah, I didn't know either, sounds like it is yet another one of those "works best in Chrome" clients, I usually use Firefox, and it probably tries to open Zoom. Maybe sometimes people click "open in browser" instead or something? Not sure...

What's worse is WebEx is supposed to be web only supposedly, but I installed 3 things to use it... Totally not HTML5 friendly at all...

For anybody interested in the Zoom web client:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443

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kabes 2543 days ago
Their web client is actually doing something quite interesting. Instead of using webRTC, they load a webassembly video codec. They then encode frames in a webworker and transport them via websockets over their servers.
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