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 […]
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Update: Just a note that this article refers to 10.4.0 and is out of date.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 […]
Gee, this bug looks awfully familiar.
Now, maybe if I had had a company paying me to get software working, I could’ve spent the time to produce such detailed test cases. But I didn’t. And Murray insisted the bug was our fault anyway. He did no such thing at any point to the VMWare people in […]
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 […]
The_Tick runs down some of the reasons he doesn’t like Jabber. Some of the criticisms seem accurate enough to me.