HTML5

BigBlueButton uses popcorn.js for HTML5 playback of recordings

BigBlueButton uses popcorn.js for HTML5 playback of recordings

Two words: popcorn.js rocks. We’ve been working on adding record and playback to BigBlueButton 0.8 for months (we’re almost ready for a beta). We had originally written our own HTML5 playback client for playback of slides + audio. This way, playback could occur within an HTML5 browser. By using HTML5, the playback would be very [...]

HTML 5

We’re starting to look closer at the potential for HTML 5 provide as an option for BigBlueButton to provide rich multi-media interface in a pure HTML/Javascript environment. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ While there will always be limitations in a new platform, and we know its early days, but HTML 5 is showing some promise for supporting the voice [...]