Some people in the Jabber community seem to be confused about my criticisms of iChat’s Jabber support. I’d like to reiterate why I criticized iChat in the first place.
Regardless of what iChat does in the future, at this very moment we have a client which is quickly becoming popular which has some broken protocol. Client […]
One of the classes I was fortunate enough to take this semester was entitled Computer-Mediated Communication. Susan Fussell taught it. The class helped me gain a much greater understanding of the academic world which does research on the very things I’ve spent a lot of time designing outside of academia. I enjoyed the class.
The end […]
My friend Edmund points out that the “use encryption” checkbox for Bluetooth is gone in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It is my assumption that encryption over Bluetooth is simply always enabled in Tiger, but neither of us have found anything anywhere which specifies what the current functionality is. Edmund would be much more comfortable […]
In response to my list of Jabber protocol inadequecies in iChat, Peter Saint-Andre comes to iChat’s defense. Peter, I never said there weren’t reasons for the ways iChat does things. I certainly offer some explanations when I know them—in fact, several of the topics I list I flat out say I didn’t expect iChat to […]
Update: Just a note that this article refers to 10.4.0 and is out of date. If you came here from a search, you probably want the FAQ.
Introduction
One of the most important features Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger has from my perspective is Jabber support. iChat now features support for Jabber/XMPP, so many people might be […]
John Gruber is compiling a list of Tiger details which were not already covered in the great (big) Ars Technica Tiger review.
I’m probably just going to contribute most of my observations to John’s list (assuming he accepts them).
What is Jabber?
Jabber is an open instant messaging system which is set up somewhat like email—anyone can run a server, and as long as the servers are exposed to the Internet, people can talk to people on different servers. It is not centralized and owned by a gigantic corporation (AIM, MSN), and no one owns […]