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I'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.
by charonn0 10y ago
I'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.