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The idea of real time communication is similar to IRC, but remember that it's just a protocol. The big difference here is what you can do with how that data is
by joepestro 17y ago
The idea of real time communication is similar to IRC, but remember that it's just a protocol. The big difference here is what you can do with how that data is presented to users.
There are some really neat things you can do with HTTP and a browser that IRC clients lack. The whole rendering a page with text, images, and markup together adds a lot to the experience that you just don't get with IRC. Great job friendfeed - it looks like this brings together the strengths of each.
- mariorz 17y agomibbit's been experimenting a lot in this area directly. You should check it out.
- pyr3 17y agoLook at Adium (which is IM, but I don't think IRC) and Colloquy (IRC and SILC) on OSX. They output chat to XML which is then 'themed' with XSLT into HTML to display in a Webkit frame. It sounds really convoluted, but it's presented in HTML form. and you can use images etc.