New Google widget in the works
Kim Schulz, friday d. 22. september 2006
Today I started planning the developent of my next Google widget. It is going to be quite a bit more code-heavy, but also more fun to develop.
This time I will be working on a Jabber client widget which can (hopefully) connect to gtalk (among others).
I have not yet decided on the backend for the system, but have been looking on a few:
- Yafumato - http://yafumato.sf.net/
- nice looking, but unfortunately in Java = heavy on the load side.
- JWChat - http://www.jwchat.org
- quite advanced an ok looking - needs a http-poll proxy
- Laffer - http://laffer.sf.net
- Quite ugly and the code is messy as he..
Besides this I have been looking at what to consider when constructing this applet.
Questions like:
what is better: dhtml window embedded in page or popup window.
Personally I think that a popup would be better, sinde I often use my google page for searching and hence the widget will be removed and the client will be disconnected.
What should it connect to?
I personally dont want to run a jabber server, if this widget gets popular. On the other hand, would it be nice to have full control over the entire setup.
Besides this it would be cool with gtalk support and preferebly transports for ICQ (and Messenger for the less fortunate).
But sofar the plan is to let the widget handle the settings part with credentials, popup or dhtml-win, server to use, and maybe status.
Let me know if you have any ideas for this project.
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