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To fix irc, the best thing they could do would be to add first class support for js and websockets.
by grizzles 10y ago
To fix irc, the best thing they could do would be to add first class support for js and websockets.
- majewsky 10y agoI literally can't tell if this is satire.
- wtbob 10y agoMe neither. I hope it is, but … I just don't know any more.
- grizzles 10y agoIt's not, but your comment made me smile. You seem to feel differently. Go ahead, tell me why it shouldn't be the case.
- charonn0 10y agoI'm not the person you asked, but I share their opinion because JS and websockets do not appear to have any obvious relationship or applicability to IRC.
- grizzles 10y agoA reason to do it is because most internet users >99.9% have a web browser. <0.01% have an irc client. You could argue that Twitter or Slack has sort of filled this niche for people who want to do #topic based chat but if the goal is to do it in an open protocol, then that's imo why it would be applicable to irc.
- majewsky 10y agoOkay, but in which way is JS and WebSockets relevant to the IRC core protocol, if you usually have a proxy (such as KiwiIRC) which speaks IRC in the backend and HTTP/JS/websockets/whatever in the frontend.