Visit Google Talk's homepage (in English):
http://www.google.com/talk/
You'll find out now description for Gmail chat and the desktop client occupied the same space. It seems like that they're going to abandon the current desktop client (while releasing a completely redesigned one, maybe). |
Does anyone know if Google could fully rely on HTML5 for Gmail Talk, in the future? |
They could use replace their Gmail polling method with Web Sockets. For peer-to-peer communication (like audio/video chat and file transfer) they need a custom protocol, which currently cannot be implemented using HTML5 and thus still needs a plugin. |