[IAEP] do OLPC browsers support WebRTC microphone audio input?

[Sam Parkinson]

On Sun, 2017-03-12 at 12:16 -0400, Adam Holt wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Jim Salsman <jim at talknicer.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Sam P. <sam at sam.today> wrote:
> > > OLPC OS ships with an ancient (2011?) version of WebKitGtk+.  I
> > don't even
> > > think that the current version supports WebRTC.
> > >
> > > Maybe you could run a version of Firefox or chrome on it?
> > 
> > Does anyone out there have Chrome or Firefox compiling on OLPCs?
> 
> There was some solid research comparing Firefox 26 and Firefox 50 on
> XO laptops (particularly on Fedora 18) not so many weeks ago in
> December and January:
> 
>    http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2017-January/thread.html
>    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browser_improvements
> 
> Rough conclusion seems to be that Firefox 26 is ready-to-go if you
> want that, but that it would take more work to get Firefox 50
> compiling cleanly here?

I'm quite amazed, but Firefox has supported WebRTC since version 22, so
it might work?!  http://caniuse.com/#search=webrtc (you have to click
the show all versions button)

> 
> Also if I recall Nathan Riddle also has a couple further details,
> that might not have made it into the thread above, so I can put you
> in contact with him directly if nec?
> 
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