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Even the free plan would probably suit your needs ? A P.S @Alan how hard would an extension CFSOCKET ?? that you can fire up listen on a port and send requests through be, Seems like a useful addition ? A On 28 December 2011 09:53, David Mulder <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ >> google+ hints/tips: >> https://plus.google.com/**115990347459711259462<https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462> >> http://groups.google.com/**group/openbd?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en> >> > > 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 > > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: > https://plus.google.com/**115990347459711259462<https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462> > > http://groups.google.com/**group/openbd?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en> > -- Alex Skinner Managing Director Pixl8 Interactive Tel: +448452600726 Email: [email protected] Web: pixl8.co.uk -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
