[dev] Jabber-client in DIMP?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Adam Nemeth <aadaam at gmail.com>:

> I've been using IMP in various projects since 1999. Now I'm dealing
> with jabber things now after I felt I've played with web 2.0  enough.
>
> I've been searching for an open source alternative for gmail's
> client-in-webmail, and I think [D]IMP would be an ideal candidate.

Cool!

> I've made a simple jabber client in javascript, there's another in
> comments as well:
> http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2007/06/jsjabber-educational-client-in.html
> - just to show that it's easy to begin.
>
> The only issue is authentication. If there'd be a way to authenticate
> a jabber client with horde credentials, it could be easily done.
> Possibly a simple client could be put in an iframe,or be part of the
> project.
>
> Also it could be integrated with Turba, showing presence fields for
> certain contacts.
>
> (I'd appreciate an openfire support, but probably ejabberd support -
> since external authentication is done by shellscripts/c programs, not
> in java is easier; I think a larger deployment like SAPO would prefer
> the iframe solution because of ejabberd's built-in high availability
> webserver, but for the most cases there won't be that much users :)
>
> What do you think?

I'd love to see this; I think it should be a separate project to DIMP  
though of course integrated with it (just to avoid turning DIMP into  
an unholy super-app :). Patches towards this, code, etc. would be great.

-chuck