The big update for today is opening the Jabber client when a user visits the page, rather than opening it when the user opens a chat box. The advantages boil down to:
- This greatly simplifies the process of identifying whether an operator is available.
- Operators can initiate chat with web users.
- Uhhm .. that's all I've got.
At some point we may want to add some kind of privacy control for web users who do not want operators to initiate chat. Maybe we could have some kind of cookie that prevents hab.la from opening the Jabber session unless you specifically ask it to.
Also, all these Jabber streams may cause a performance issue at some point, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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