I am using Openfire, an XMPP (Jabber) server, to facilitate instant messaging in a closed system I am building. Part of my design had users rely on browsers as instant messaging (IM) clients. As Meebo showed, it can be done quite well and an open source JavaScript library, JSJaC, apparently provides this ability. JSJaC is […]
Setting up JSJaC with Openfire 3.5.2
October 14th, 2008 4 Comments
Tags: Apache httpd · JavaScript · JSJaC · mod_proxy · Openfire · XMPP
Internet Explorer 8: Stay away, don’t believe the hype, aaaaaaaaaaargh!
September 6th, 2008 1 Comment
I was stupid enough to believe all the offhand mentions like on the Wall Street Journal that said that Internet Explorer 8’s beta actually worked nice. So much so that having not been burnt by installing Chrome, I felt bandwagonesque enough to also install IE 8.
First, IE 8 *overwrites* and *replaces* IE 7. That […]
Tags: Add-ons disabled · fail fail fail · Internet Explorer · Internet Explorer 8 · JavaScript · Microsoft · suck suck suck · Wall Street Journal · Web Browser