[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[Bart van Bragt]

> Thanks for the pointers.  When I have time I will follow up - but what I am
> mainly interested in is some sort of simple system for displaying Jabber
> presence info on webpages.  This is a feature you can see in almost every
> forum system for the big four (ICQ/AIM/MSN/Yahoo) - the icon beside each
> user post to show if they are online or not.  From my experience it is very
> hard to talk forum/portal web authors into including Jabber support without
> this.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if someone is working on this for any of the above?
I'm working on this, Jeremie created the Jabber server part quite some time
ago, I'm creating the web frontend for it at the moment.

There are already some online indicators available. The problem with 
these indicators is that most of them work on a site basis. So you need 
one bot/agent in your roster for every site where you want to display 
your presence.

IMO that's not really feasible, that's why we're currently working on 
presence.jabber.org, a service that any user/webmaster can use.

You just add an agent to your roster and after that you can use 
something like:

<img src="http://presence.jabber.org/jabber@vanbragt.com/1"> for a 
standard indicator (or something like that, still working on it ;)).

I'm trying to get my hands on the code that amessage.de uses for their 
online indicator, that would save me some work. If that's not possible 
I'll write something myself which should be fairly trivial.

So this webpresence issue is being worked on...

Cheers,

BartVB