Last week, I wrote about the under-appreciated but impressive Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you embed a softphone into any web page.
Phono is made by Florida-based Voxeo, a long-standing and innovative telephony software vendor.
With a pinch of JavaScript, anybody—developer, HTML-phobic designer—can add a voice channel widget, accessible from laptop, smartphone, or tablet.
What’s cooler than an embedded JavaScript softphone?
Connecting said softphone up with Tropo, Voxeo’s server-side telephony environment.
I usually free associate baseball, not JavaScript, with the month of August, so I decided to take on a small Tropo project to read back current major league baseball scores into my Phono widget, which I’ve conveniently inserted into this post.
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