[JDEV] CLIENT DEVELOPERS: How to get your client listed on new jabber.org site...

[Peter Millard]

Ulrich Staudinger wrote:
> Aeh .... i just want to annotate that some listed clients definitely
> don't support Basic chat fully (as indicated). In fact most of the
> clients listed don't support threads, thus making multiple
> communication with the same person/bot impossible (i tested this
> myself).

Ulrich -

Have you found that people actually want this functionality?? I had threads
properly implemented in Winjab a _LONG_ time ago, and every single user
complained about it. "Why does a new window open up???". This was mostly
because other clients were not echo'ing my thread tag back. Thus, you end up
having a "bucket" chat window which receives all messages which have a blank
thread. Most of this could be avoided if the <thread> tag was mandatory for
message type="chat" packets. I've long since gotten away from the idea of
trying to implement threads "properly" because of these reasons (other
clients).... Mostly, I just echo the last thread, and generate one when a
new conversation starts.

On a related note, many clients don't handle chatting w/ multiple resources
very well either. Again, this is an "edge case" IMO, but once that can be
important in certain vertical market applications.

pgm.