[JDEV] Presence indicator for web page

[Michael Brown]

> There is another alternative, although I'd still qualify it as
> experimental and hasn't been updated in quite a while.  WCS, the "Web
> Client Services" is a prototype add-on web server plus client "stuff" for
> jabberd-1.4.  The only decent info on these was last posted on the old
> jabber.org website still up at:
> http://oid.jabber.org/?oid=1102
>
> I've been planning on integrating it into it's own standalone release,
> based on some of the newer jabberd-1.5 code, and am hoping to dig into
> that considerably this fall.
>
> For now, if you get the http/wcs components running, check out the docs
> folder and one of the functions inside wcs handles presence subscriptions
> and exposes them to any web browser via a simple redirect in any <img
> src="">.

This sounds really really useful.  I think there is a requirement for this
to be as standardised as possible, as the easier we make the life of web
developers, the more likely we are to see Jabber integration in websites -
which can only be good for us.

Ideally I would like to see this become a (semi-)standard part of the Jabber
server.  There should be a default agent - say 'webpresence.myserver.com' -
that users could register with that could handle this type of stuff
(strictly opt-in of course).  Possibly making status messages etc available
into be included in html pages in addition to an image.

Is there any chance of getting a JEP together for this?  I'm happy to draft
up a list of requirements, but would need some help with the technical
details or implementation aspect etc.

Mike
JID: michael @ aurora.gen.nz