[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[David 'TheRaven' Chisnall]

I wrote a PHP presense icon script a year ago.  It required that the 
site had a jabber account (called 'WebPager' or something).  Each user 
that wanted to use it added that user to their roster, and it would log 
on, detect presence and log off whenever a page was loaded.  It could 
also parse the roster and send and receive messages, although the 
receiving component was not used for the presence, but rather to allow 
people behind firewalls to use a simple web interface.  I got distracted 
before I got around to deploying it, but I probably will this summer. 
 At that point I'll also open up the code, in case anyone wants it.  It 
implemented all of the functionality of the ICQ web pager (you could 
even use it as an ICQ web pager if you had the ICQ transport set up 
correctly...), and a few other bits.  The only server support it 
required was an account created for it to use, so it could use a public 
server if required.

Richard Dobson wrote:

>>Ages ago I wrote up a proposal to do this via a transport in JEP format
>>(which Peter wouldn't accept despite my constant nagging) but I have had
>>little feedback on it or seen any alternative ideas put forward:
>>
>>http://www.yabber.org/jep/webpresence/webpresence.xml (IE6 renders this
>>    
>>
>with
>  
>
>>the XSLT - not sure about other browsers)
>>    
>>
>
>Yea but that proposal made the assumption that every server would run a
>presence component at a fixed address which is not really feasible in the
>real world, and if it wasnt running at that fixed location it wouldnt work,
>which isnt really very good.
>
>  
>
>>If we can get a Jabber icon to show up beside even a small fraction of
>>    
>>
>user
>  
>
>>posts on phpBB/phpNuke sites then it is going to drastically raise the
>>awareness of Jabber on the web.
>>    
>>
>
>Yep I totally agree, but it doesnt look good if you method was used and half
>of the presence indicators have broken images ;)
>
>Richard
>
>_______________________________________________
>jdev mailing list
>jdev at jabber.org
>http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
>
>  
>