Does anyone know if the Google Talk browser plugin can be used by web application developers? I'm talking about manipulating it with HTML/JavaScript. The Google Talk dev site only seems to have information for developers who want to develop independent client/server apps. But theres nothing about utilizing the embedded plugin used by gmail, igoogle and orkut (apparently).
I'm particularly interested in using the audio/video conferencing capabilities; possibly with non-Google libjingle servers. I'm guessing Google didn't publish the API for competitive reasons.
I do not think this is possible however, there is a project to bring these capabilities to browsers. It is called WebRTC. It looks like it is available in Chrome and Firefox.