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February 22, 2008
 

Documentation can be believe it?

So I just spent the last 3-4 hours writing documentation, can you believe it?

I can’t.

In any case the documentation is pretty complete and covers the habla.config object in quite a bit of detail.

Click here to see the sexy documentation

I am extremely interested in knowing if anyone actually takes advantage of this documentation to do something cool, or reads it at all. Please leave me a comment if you read the documentation. If I get enough comments, I will definitely document the Hab.la event model, and the plugin framework!

Here’s a teaser from the docs:

  1. Instantiating a habla.config object
    • Usage Example
  2. habla.config object overview
  3. habla.config configuration variables
    • Text Interface Elements
    • Hab.la Icons
    • Hab.la Messages
    • Other Interface Elements
      • Maximize and Minimize Buttons
      • Link Detection and Links
    • Away Messages
    • Startup States
    • Setting Default Nicknames
    • Offline/Online Status variables
  4. habla.config palette variables
    • Example Code
    • Color List
  5. habla.config style variables
    • The habla.config style render
    • The habla.config styles
  6. habla.config plugins
    • Google Analytics Plugin
    • Expand the Hab.la Window on Message Received Plugin
  7. habla.config methods
    • Displaying the Hab.la Window Inline

Filed under  //   documentation   finally   javascript  
Posted by Olark 

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February 11, 2008
 

Hab.la Wiki is Here!

I think about 1 person told us we should have a wiki to discuss all the important wiki like things help us build more up to date documentation on what you can do with Hab.la.

Well the documentation isn’t here yet, but it is kind of fun to be able to create a wiki page, I even rattled off a quick FAQ.

Feel free to contribute to our meager documentation. Our first goal is to take all the posts from the blog and weave them into something readable/grokable on the wiki. I’d say look for this in about a week :-)

Filed under  //   about   documentation   faq   hab.la   questions   wiki  
Posted by Olark 

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June 19, 2007
 

I'm at a loss for a better title than "what's new"

Lots of new stuff. Maybe I should update more than once every two weeks. OK, let's see here...

  • We realized that the main web page didn't really ever explain what exactly Hab.la is, so we created a tour (with a little help from a beta tester-- thanks Dad.)
  • Several users were confused by seeing "me" and "you" in the chat windows, so now it uses your actual Hab.la username instead.
  • Nearly all Mac users have iChat pre-installed, and most Linux users are probably already using Gaim or Pidgin, but we figured most Windows users don't already have a Jabber client. We wanted to ease the pain of installing a new IM program and figuring out how to add your Hab.la account. So I wrote a wrapper around the Pidgin installer; now you can download Pidgin with your Hab.la account already set up. (Overkill? Maybe, but the computer hasn't complained yet.)
  • Ben came up with a crazy hack to allow you to add Hab.la to sites where Javascript is disabled (e.g., MySpace or Facebook). Details forthcoming.

We've also been diligently fixing bugs that have vexed our testers, and the next phase of the beta will officially begin very, very soon. Maybe as soon as tonight if I'm feeling ambitious. Or maybe not, if I'm feeling like going to the beach instead.

Filed under  //   beach   beta   bugs   documentation   myspace   pidgin   tour  
Posted by Olark 

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