chat revisited.. I seek a volunteer?

[Karen Lewellen]

now you may understand why we are trying, the company and I to get their 
client to work with e-links, which seems to be the only reliable 
javascript based browser option we have
and why I was looking for someone who uses e-links to test their demo chat 
so I can besure it is not  my setup of the program on shellworld that is 
an issue.

webcrossing makes their chat client available free of charge to agencies who 
use their hosting services.
Many companies want their chat to be within the basic confines of their 
web presence which is the case  here.
so creating the gateway is not as easy as suggested?
Karen

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:

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> So you need IRC to be linked up with an existing web client.  Well, this is a
> little more involved, maybe.  Of course the simplest thing for all involved is
> to ditch the client altogether and host the room as a channel on the IRC server.
> Easy enough, but if the hosting company is not willing to do this then we really
> have a problem.  The only other solution is to create an IRC gateway to the chat
> room.  This is, of course, much easier for the hosting company, since they have
> to do absolutely nothing.  However, it would involve a lot of programming and
> reverse-engineering of the protocol used by the web client in order to get a
> functional IRC channel.  And last, but certainly not least, is trying to do
> everything possible to make the chat client itself work well with screen
> readers.  And that would be the hardest thing for the hosting company, since
> they would have to reprogram their client, if it will even work with most screen
> readers.  Jaws may have changed somewhat over the years, but last time I tried
> to use it for a browser-based chat, the only time it would speak is if I used
> the Jaws cursor constantly, and that was a real pain, and I lost a lot of
> messages that way.  This last solution is much harder on the hosting company
> from a programmer's standpoint than simply ditching their client altogether in
> favour of an IRC server, since the IRC server would require no extensive
> reprogramming, only basic configuration mostly.
>
> HTH,
> Lorenzo
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