[sldev] Question: Replacing current group chat with XMPP?

[Lawson English]

David M Chess wrote:
>
> > From: "Dahlia Trimble" <dahliatrimble at gmail.com>
>
> [...]
> >I'd love to see an IRC client built into the viewer. Currently I can 
> use a
> >web based irc client inside the viewer's browser window, but it takes far
> >more screen real estate than it needs. Then again, the communicate window
> >also takes far more screen real estate than it needs :(
>
> I hope that's slightly tongue-in-cheek.  :)  Or else people are going 
> to start advocating for email / AIM / WoW clients built into the 
> viewer, too, for the same reasons.  :)
Actually, its the logical way to go for a universal client. Have any 
participating virtual world's viewer available in teh same app as the 
SL-compatible one (likewise with multiple chat clients). realXtend is 
going that route, for example, at least as far as the 3D viewer part is 
concerned.


Lawson