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**No single-signon available with many: your OWW user name will not always appear in the chat unles you reset it each time you use it. | **No single-signon available with many: your OWW user name will not always appear in the chat unles you reset it each time you use it. | ||
*Ad-sponsorship makes use of some of these is problematic. | *Ad-sponsorship makes use of some of these is problematic. | ||
* See [[Sandbox]] for a demo of embedded Meebo rooms | |||
[[Category:Software]][[Category:Chat Software]] | [[Category:Software]][[Category:Chat Software]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:26, 18 May 2008
Current State
- De-supporting old chat application
- Adding support for Jabber-based chat
- OpenFire chat server already running
- SparkFire chat client available
- SparkFire web chat client available
OWW Discussion re: new chat client
Technology Options
Jabber
- Generally Requires external client
- Can use a hosted web client
- Jabber is the Basis of the emerging XMPP standard for point-to-point connected real-time apps
HTML/HTTP Browser++ Chat
- Easy to use but server suffers with excessive load due to the division of the work load
- example: former OWW php chat application
- Javascript now is being used to push much of the load to the client
- Flash also used to intelligently communicate
- The best options are not open source
- If you know of alternatives, let us know!
- http://cgiirc.org/ for HTTP client (alternative clients include Chatzilla); servers host an IRC daemon program.
- If you know of alternatives, let us know!
3rd Party Hosted Chat
- Few of them are free!
- Most hosted clients that are close to free lack integration features with OWW
- No single-signon available with many: your OWW user name will not always appear in the chat unles you reset it each time you use it.
- Ad-sponsorship makes use of some of these is problematic.
- See Sandbox for a demo of embedded Meebo rooms
