[uf-discuss] Chat formats again (Adium + Rails/Jabber Chat)

[Chris Messina]

Or, even better, someone gets added to the chat that you don't know
and clicking on their name automatically adds them to your history of
"spoken with" contacts that you can later drag into your permanent
collections of friends with their hcard completely intact.

Chris

On 8/11/06, Breton Slivka <zen at zenpsycho.com> wrote:
> A couple neat ones pop into my head off the bat.
> Someone pastes in an hCard, click it and it gets added to your
> address book.
> Someone pastes in an hCalendar vevent, added to your calendar app.
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:44:44PM -0700, Chris Messina wrote:
> >> I had a conversation with the Growl/Adium/Foom guy today... primarily
> >> about microformats in Adium
> >>
> >> He tells me that he's working with a bunch of other IM clients (GAIM,
> >> Adium, Kopete) to adopt an XML based chat format:
> >>
> >> http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/XMLLogFormat
> >>
> >> I spent a good deal of time trying to win him over about why he
> >> should
> >> consider HTML and microformats for both chat logs and chat display,
> >> but he wouldn't budge.
> >
> > Over in the Jabber community we have an XML format as well (by no
> > means
> > universally adopted):
> >
> > http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0136.html#fileformat
> >
> > But with XSLT we can simply transform one format into another, no?
> >
> > BTW I have been working on preparing the XHTML-IM integration set for
> > more robust microformats support:
> >
> > http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0071.html
> >
> > Do you guys have any use cases for microformats in IM that I can
> > use to
> > socialize these concepts in the Jabber community?
> >
> >> It seems to me that we need to push forward with some kind of
> >> Campfire-esque web-based chat client that supports Jabber auth. The
> >> only one I've found so far that's open source is Congress...
> >>
> >> http://www.petercooper.co.uk/archives/001038.html
> >>
> >> I'd like to find time, perhaps at a Mash Pit during BarCampEarth to
> >> code this thing up using some kind of microformat. Anyone interested?
> >
> > Have at it and post the results! :-)
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > --
> > Peter Saint-Andre
> > Jabber Software Foundation
> > http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml
> >
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