Minichat - Web client on Tigase website
Submitted by kobit on Wed, 2008-04-23 22:00.
We have just installed the Minichat - simple web client on the Tigase website. It allows anybody who visits the website to chat with "admin" - me ;-). No user name, no password is required. Just click to connect to the XMPP/Jabber server and you can start conversation.
This is the AJAX application created using GWT (Google Web Toolkit). It connects to the XMPP server via Bosh and signs in using SASL Anonymous.
This is our first version of the client and we are going to move things further to add fully functional AJAX client to Tigase project. The AJAX client and the XMPP library written in GWT is also available under GPLv3 license and will be released publicly very soon.
Please have a look, experiment and let us know what you think...
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great work ... there is no delay while chating :)
Hehe, indeed. I think, however it lack of some functionality yet.
1. Cursor issue is fixed now.
2. I definitely agree with this. We are looking at this. One of possible solution is to turn auto-login on. But this might but unnecessary load on the server. Another way is to read the admin status from the database and display it somewhere on the website, but then if status changed it wouldn't be automatically available. So the solution to this is not as simple as it would look like.
You should package this up with a backend server and sell it. I know many companies that would buy this for live support.
I like the simplicity but I have two suggestions.
First, the cursor becomes a "writing cursor" when the mouse is moved over the click area but it should become a "link cursor".
Second, the admin status should be displayed before the login/click too.