Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Showcase: Lace – Ajaxian Chat Service
Chat clients often seem to be sample applications of new technology on the web. Ajax has had its share, and now there is Lace: a free Ajax experiment that implements a chat service.
Lace is a free web communications experiment written in PHP, Javascript, XHTML and CSS. Lace takes advantage of XMLHttpRequest if it is present, and degrades gracefully if it is not.
Features
- Communicate in nearly-real-time with friends and colleagues
- Intelligent XMLHttpRequest cycle management
- Degrades gracefully
- Pretty URLs – no file extensions or query strings
- Simple flat-file database
4.1 rating from 9 votes
Thanks to everyone who has stopped by to check out Lace! The Ajaxian linkage was very unexpected.
So allow me to clarify a few things. Lace is still quite young, and it’s code is not quite ‘the best.’ Coincidentally, version 0.2 (a ground-up re-write) is well under way, and addresses many of the code-level organizational issues and a few other choice tweaks.
Lace v0.2 will also include a simple plug-in API that will allow developers to write their own plugins utilizing Lace (for example, a Lace plugin for Poseidon [http://www.wonko.com/poseidon] or WordPress, or).
Hmm, interesting. I thought I was the only one who had written a live-chatting system like this, but I guess not. I’m the author of Chategory ( http://www.cmmwebdesign.com/v3/software/chategory ), which coincidentally is also undergoing a complete makeover. I guess great minds think alike. ;)
Lol, I also thought I was the only one who’d written something like this. I released QWAD Chat (http://www.qwadchat.com/) a bit over 6 months ago, although it is lacking much support at the moment.
Users can embed it in their website, although at the moment it doesn’t degrade.
Cheers,
Chris
PS: Others may also be interested in my other ajax application – http://www.feedtagger.com/ A web based RSS/tagging/Ajax aggregator.
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