[JDEV] Re: [Win32-dev] Interface Ad Ins?

Tue Dec 21 09:36:48 CST 1999

Quoting Joe Osowski <awake at upallnite.com>:
> Excuse if I'm going over old ground, but with all this talk about adding
> different transports I had an idea.  Why not have the Jabber client be
> plug-in based?  IE... a user gets a basic client with chat and whatever
> support, but at later dates as more traports are developed, more tabs are
> developed.  Stock Quotes, News, IRC, Server Alerts, Email... etc.  Users
> can
> pick and choose what they want their Jabber Client to do.

  Zabber actually already supports this type of functionality.  It has 
a 'TicTacToe' example that allows two zabber users to play ticktactoe..  But 
it's all plugin based.

  I know exactly what your talking about here, and the clients can actually 
support 'both'.  Example would be the stock ticker:

<message to='you- from='ticker'>
<subject>Your Personal Ticker</subject>
<body>
RHAT: 219
LNIX: 245
OXHP: 12
</body>
<ticker xmlns='jabber::ticker'>
<symbol name='RHAT'>219</symbol>
<symbol name='LNIX'>245</symbol>
<symbol name='OXHP'>12</symbol>
</ticker>
</message>

  In this example, 'standard' clients will recieve the message and be able to 
read it, but clients that are 'extentions aware' can detect foreign namespaces 
within a message, and pass the message off to a plugin who has those external 
namespaces registered.

  Essentially, this support 'dumb' clients, as well as smarter ones who may 
display this data differently then standard messages..

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Thomas Charron
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