A Chat/IM client within chrome browser

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	A Chat/IM client within chrome browser (psankar.blogspot.com)
	10 points by curiosity 5379 days ago
	A chat/IM client within by integrating with the Telepathy library, used by GNOME and KDE.

3 comments

18pfsmt 5378 days ago

I like this idea, but could someone explain how to set this up without a server for two people over a WAN connection? Is this possible even with NATs?

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mak120 5379 days ago

Its a nice project and great effort no doubt. But I am not convinced bundling an IM client into a browser is necessary or even a good idea.

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curiosity 5379 days ago

Thanks.

I agree it may not be a brilliant idea. But it was more as an experimental thing and has helped my programming skills :-)

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maximusprime 5379 days ago

> "I believe having IM support may be important for Chromium as IM is one of the important activities that could not be performed yet on the browser."

FWIW, ebuddy and meebo amongst others, have been around for years.

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curiosity 5379 days ago

Sure meebo and ebuddy are there. But I do not like a Man in the middle. I mean, we have no guarantee that meebo will not record our conversations or passwords. Yes, I am being just paranoid. Also, we do not know how long these services may exist. May be a web interface for telepathy which can be hosted on apache will be good.

BTW, I did this as an experiment :-) Thanks for your comments.

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maximusprime 5379 days ago

Sorry if my comment came across as dismissive. Always cool to see new things being tried.

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