Chat
Online chat room applications, chatroom development, even free and open source chat room software.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Category: Chat
, Editorial
, JavaScript
Wesley Tanaka has written Yet Another Chat Client, and uses this experience to discuss some of the implementation details. Wesley ends up wanting to have a <?JS … ?> construct a la PHP. Why does he want this? So he can share code between the client and server side of the application. He rewrote the Read the rest…
Friday, August 5th, 2005
Category: Chat
, Showcase
In the YAChat category, we have a Jabber Web Chat: JWChat: JWChat aims to be a full featured, web based Jabber client. It uses only JavaScript and HTML on the client-side. Currently it supports basic jabber instant messaging, roster management and muc-based groupchats. JWChat is an advanced instant messenger (IM) just like AIM, MSN Messenger, Read the rest…
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Category: Chat
, Showcase
The popular open source content management platform Drupal, has started to get Ajaxian. They just released an Ajaxian chat module. The code exists here.
Saturday, July 16th, 2005
Category: Chat
, Showcase
Wael Chatila has done the coolest Ajaxian Harry Potter application to date :) Wael implemented a magical diary, inspired by the magical diary in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” using a chatbot, Ajax and some cool scripting :) How about that for an ode to the new book coming out this weekend? Type Read the rest…
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Thursday, June 9th, 2005
Category: Ajax
, Chat
, Showcase
There is yet another Ajax based chat located at http://gamma.nic.fi/~jmp/chat/app.html. It is based on selecting a channel, and chatting away.
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Category: Ajax
, Chat
, Showcase
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 Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Category: Chat
, Showcase
We have had requirements on community sites that we build chat functionality right into the site itself. Users that are online can chat, and if a group of people are reading a particular article, the users can be narrowed there. A dutch group has got a cross cutting avatar site, which lets people chat when Read the rest…