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

On Feb 5, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Alexei Svitkine wrote:
> 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)?

I think that would be a very bad idea. It would make it very difficult 
to run Fire on different OS versions, and we would lose flexibility on 
fixing low level bugs.

-Jason