Heiner Wolf
2004-09-06 12:24:35 UTC
Hi,
I am member of the jabber Virtual Presence Project. The project implements virtual presence client based on Jabber (called LLuna). This jabber client has no buddy list. Its main purpose is to let people meet each other on web pages. Basically it is a Jabber groupchat client with a fancy user interface. Users ar shown as figures standing on the lower border of the browser window. The client is for Win32. Works with IE, Mozilla, etc, but only on Win32.
Here comes the point: In our forum there was a question if we could build the same with Mozilla for non-Win32. The idea is to use the Jabberzilla code base to join/leave Jabber chat rooms while browsing the Web and show other people in the same room /on/ the page as avatar figures. When LLuna was on Slashdot we got many similar requests to make LLuna work on Linux, but at that time I had no idea how to move the code to Linux, because there are many Win32 specific parts including the communication between LLuna and the browser and the display of avatars above the browser window. With this post in the forum I just learned about Jabberzilla. I see a great change to make Virtual Presence available to Linux users. Maybe even for Win users it would be nice to have Virtual Presence built into the browser, so Mozilla would be first choice.
If you need more info, then please see the project web site.
Web site: http://developer.lluna.de
The forum topic: http://www.lluna.de/?/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15
There is some theory behind the mapping between Web-URLs and Jabber-room-JIDs. There is an extensive JEP proposal which addresses many issues including user privacy, distribution of the service, flexibility, load distribution, etc. (see http://www.lluna.de/docs/jeps/vp/jep-vpprotocol.html).
hw
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Dr. Klaus H. Wolf
bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG
http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw
+49 (0721) 16108 75
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Jabber enabled Virtual Presence on the Web: http://www.lluna.de/
Open Source Future History: http://www.galactic-developments.com/
I am member of the jabber Virtual Presence Project. The project implements virtual presence client based on Jabber (called LLuna). This jabber client has no buddy list. Its main purpose is to let people meet each other on web pages. Basically it is a Jabber groupchat client with a fancy user interface. Users ar shown as figures standing on the lower border of the browser window. The client is for Win32. Works with IE, Mozilla, etc, but only on Win32.
Here comes the point: In our forum there was a question if we could build the same with Mozilla for non-Win32. The idea is to use the Jabberzilla code base to join/leave Jabber chat rooms while browsing the Web and show other people in the same room /on/ the page as avatar figures. When LLuna was on Slashdot we got many similar requests to make LLuna work on Linux, but at that time I had no idea how to move the code to Linux, because there are many Win32 specific parts including the communication between LLuna and the browser and the display of avatars above the browser window. With this post in the forum I just learned about Jabberzilla. I see a great change to make Virtual Presence available to Linux users. Maybe even for Win users it would be nice to have Virtual Presence built into the browser, so Mozilla would be first choice.
If you need more info, then please see the project web site.
Web site: http://developer.lluna.de
The forum topic: http://www.lluna.de/?/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15
There is some theory behind the mapping between Web-URLs and Jabber-room-JIDs. There is an extensive JEP proposal which addresses many issues including user privacy, distribution of the service, flexibility, load distribution, etc. (see http://www.lluna.de/docs/jeps/vp/jep-vpprotocol.html).
hw
--
Dr. Klaus H. Wolf
bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG
http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw
+49 (0721) 16108 75
--
Jabber enabled Virtual Presence on the Web: http://www.lluna.de/
Open Source Future History: http://www.galactic-developments.com/