Re: [Iaxclient-devel] Flash IAX2 client?

[Adam H. <ad...@te...>]

John Todd wrote:

> 
> This may be off-topic, since it's not an "iaxclient" specific request, 
> but it's the closest list to the topic:  Has anyone developed a 
> Macromedia Flash client for an IAX2 library?  Flash seems to have the 
> right components - decent media control, good cross-platform 
> compatibility, and a robust development community.  It might not be a 
> hard job at all.  In fact, I'm betting that someone out there already 
> has one, and that I'm merely ignorant of it's existence.  :-)   Anyone 
> have any leads or ideas on this?  It would be great trick to have a 
> client with no footprint at all in the native system.
> 
> Macintosh, Solaris, Linux(/BSD), Windows - they all have Flash 
> capability, which is enough of the market to make me happy. Designing 
> once, deploying once, no-admin installs all sound pretty convenient to 
> me.  What's the major holdback for something like this?
> 
> JT
> 

My understanding of flash is you can only do flash script and you can't 
download/run any executable programs. Flash script itself is simple high 
level stuff for doing flash, so you couldn't do iax in flash. I'd be 
disappointed if it doesn't work this way, flash is great at what's it's 
meant to do and doesn't need the security issues of executing code. 
There's been way too many holes found in Java applet security 
implementations (web browser applet of Netscape 4.x springs to mind).

Java applets could be the way to go but A) windows has only Java 1 B) 
linux doesn't have it by default C) I don't think XP has it at all ?

-Adam