[JDEV] Jabber Client Design Tutorial

[DJ Adams]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:51:01PM +1000, Michael Brown wrote:
> 
> Also, the argument about switching from one of the proprietary services also
> applies to switching between Jabber clients, so it would be nice to have
> some sort of consistency between them if possible.

I'd have to respectfully disagree there... I don't want a 
one-size-fits-all world, and I relish the diversity of 
clients available right now.

I do have to and say that I didn't come to Jabber with any 
IM baggage - I wasn't a previous user of any of the commercial
systems...

Then again, the argument holds for other clients too - I 
couldn't imagine anything worse than having to use, say,
MS-Outlook for my mail; a team of horses couldn't drag me
away from mutt.

So, I guess it boils down to the old chestnut "horses for courses"
on this front..

dj