Re: Missing "Go to Chat..." option

On 4-Feb-05, at 11:14 PM, Alan Humpherys wrote:

> AOL and Yahoo have 2 different types of group chat rooms.  The first 
> is an Invited Group Chat, where you invite people to the room.  The 
> second are their Community Chat Rooms which show up in a directory 
> listing of room names and allow you to enter them without invitation.
>
> Fire fully supports the Invited Group Chats, but does not yet support 
> the Community Chat Rooms,which is accessed in AIM and iChat via the 
> "Go To Chat" menu option.
>
> We have discussed adding support for these, and I am working on an 
> infrastructure change within fire to support these.  However, I am not 
> sure if we will have these supported in 2.0, but we are aware of the 
> deficiency and intend upon providing a fix.
>
> Alan
>

Ok, fair enough. As long as you guys are aware. :)

Btw, has any discussion gone towards using the internal InstantMessage 
framework that iChat uses for AIM and Jabber? (which offers the 
Community Chat Possibility) Or do you guys consider it too risky to use 
a private framework (understandable)?

-Myrd



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