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I'm a geek too, but I think a time comes when we have to recognize that these kind of roundabout solutions, while fun and a testament to the flexibility of our
by AceJohnny2 11y ago
I'm a geek too, but I think a time comes when we have to recognize that these kind of roundabout solutions, while fun and a testament to the flexibility of our systems, won't cut it if you want your protocol to take over the world (which the XMPP community was tongue-in-cheekily aiming for in the mid-00's).
And besides, I was trying to focus the discussion specifically on mobile, which is the major platform today.
I'm really disappointed with the new babel that has emerged in the mobile chat world.
- geofft 11y agoYes, that's absolutely fair. As a more general solution, you could build a very lightweight mobile app or website that used a server as a relay, and whose interface involved only minimal JS (enough to long-poll or similar) -- but only if you could implement the client part of the relay. XMPP would have been an obvious way to do that, but even a documented web protocol would work fine.