On woensdag 28 december 2011 10:37:47, Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud
experts) wrote:
IRC isn't as pointless as you may thing ... there are a number of
excellent webbased tools to let you use an IRC server. I had an IRC
plugin coded a long time ago, which let the OpenBD server sit as a bot
in the chat room listening, collecting stuff and providing help.
I should breath some life into that bad boy again
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Yeah, it definitely makes sense if you want to make a bot for example
in *an existing chatroom*, but _all_ irc webbased frontends will
require either a java applet (unacceptable), flash (do-able:
http://lightirc.com/) or a websocket/polling/long polling backend and
the original question was about building a (new) chatroom, so why in
the world would you go through the trouble of creating an entire
interface between such an irc library and the javascripts streams (+
and on top of that it would also require you to host an irc server).
And for the websockets, long polling or in older browsers polling you
would still need something like socket.io either way, thus making a
working irc client in the browser is just twice as difficult (or
realistically tenfold as difficult) as making a simple chat client,
which as far as I know can definitely called pointless. (wow, that
sentence became really confusing... hope you can still follow somehow
:P ).
David Mulder
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