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Instant Messaging in Mozilla

Posted by blizzard on from the r-u-b-or-g dept.

The Mozilla project has decided to add Instant Messaging and Chat capabilities to the browser. As a proof of concept, an IRC client protocol implementation will be developed with the hopes that others will add other protocols later.

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  1. It's YOUR project by thomasd · · Score: 3
    It's amazing to see so many negative reactions to an announcement which, to my mind, just confirms the commitment of mozilla.org to interesting, creative, hacking. This doesn't mean extra delay and bloat before we see a release browser. Really.

    Mozilla work on all kinds of projects beyond the direct push towards the codebase for Netscape 5.0. All those handy development tools, for a start. Plus oddballs such as ElectricalFire and Grendel. This is just another idea that's being bounced around. I really don't expect it to take away programmer time from work on the main browser core. But on the otherhand, maybe some of us would like to hack on this.

    Complaining won't do any good -- if you don't want to code, just sit back and wait for 5.0, then use it however you like. Or don't, if you prefer, it doesn't really matter. On the other hand, if you do want to take control then get coding, or documenting, or testing, or whatever takes your fancy. This can be your project just as much as it is AOL's. Get to it.