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Intel XDK: Controls 5: Using the You Tube widget

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This post is about the You Tube widget in Intel XDK. A new version has been released: Release date: May 19 2016 Version:      v3357 Intel XDK Cloud services is undergoing significant changes and it is a recommendation from Intel XDK to use this latest version. A few new features have been added to the DEVELOP tab in the user interface and the rest about bug fixes. Start a new project using Standard HTML5 choose App Designer 3. The project is named TestYouTube. The project is just a bare bones HTML project with the main page, index.html. However, it has references to these script files and no other content in the body of the index.html: ------------- cordova.js js/app.js js/init-app.js xdk/init-dev.js -------------------------- Add a header (optional) to keep track of your project.   YouTubeDemo_00 Click on YOUTUBE in the MEDIA folder. YouTubeDemo_01 Drag it and and drop it on the page in DESIGN view. ...

WebRTC and Microsoft Edge

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 WebRTC makes web pages to see and hear through the camera, microphone, speaker etc available to the device displaying the web pages. With this two people can communicate with visual and audio support and even share data. WebRTC stands for Web-based Real-Time Communications. It is free and the WebRTC project provides mobile applications and browsers to have communication capabilities using simple Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).  Since voice and video are involved it is complicated because of various standards it has to contend with. WebRTC is supported on most browsers except Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge is the preferred browser for Windows 10 (all device types).  Microsoft is not in the list having differences over some of the details such as Google's VP8 video codec to become the default. Microsoft has its own web based communication which is called CU-RTC-WEB. Microsoft acquired Skype which has browser-based version of voice and v...