iChat to support jabber says spymac

jholzner

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Jun 5, 2003

• #1

Spymac is saying that the next version of iChat will support the jabber protocol. I'm not really famililar with that protocol. Could someone explain to me exactly what it is and why iChat supporting it is good news? I was hoping for MSN and Yahoo support.

 

maradong

macrumors 65816

• Jun 5, 2003

• #2

jabber is a protocoll for im, developed by the open source community.
http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.html?PHPSESSID=ceda8383395e7a0c7a03585d126c13df

 

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Duckie

macrumors newbie

• Jun 5, 2003

• #3

I know absolutely nobody who uses Jabber.

 

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Kid Red

macrumors 65816

• Jun 5, 2003

• #4

I've never heard of jabber, but it's open source so it would make sense to Apple going there.

Also, when was the last time Spymac was right? I keep seeing threads about there predictions yet can't remember any that have come true.

 

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pEZ

macrumors 6502

• Jun 5, 2003

• #5

Ugh. Jabber? I can see why they wouldn't ever support MSN, or Yahoo even. But what about ICQ and IRC and Gadu-Gadu?

 

maradong

macrumors 65816

• Jun 5, 2003

• #6

Originally posted by Duckie
I know absolutely nobody who uses Jabber.

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well, i do. And i have to admit it rocks. BTW most of the OO devels are using jabber. That helps if I got some questions 😀 and the irc server is once more just totaly overcrowded

 

maradong

macrumors 65816

• Jun 5, 2003

• #7

Originally posted by pEZ
Ugh. Jabber? I can see why they wouldn't ever support MSN, or Yahoo even. But what about ICQ and IRC and Gadu-Gadu?

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irq would be cool, just as well.
Don t know Gadu-Gadu. What s that?

[edit] I found it :

The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).

who the hell uses that ?😕
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mrjamin

macrumors 65816

• Jun 6, 2003

• #8

Re: iChat to support jabber says spymac

Originally posted by jholzner
I was hoping for MSN and Yahoo support.

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definateley. There are no decent msn clones for Mac. Could it be that they're not allowed to for some reason? That'd be very odd seeing as loads of people have developed their own msn clients.

 

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emberton

macrumors newbie

• Jun 6, 2003

• #9

Since most Jabber servers actually have bridges for ICQ/MSN/Yahoo/AIM installed in them, this would actually be a good way for Apple to support all those protocols indirectly, without having to negotiate with the individual companies.

If you download a Jabber client, you'll see that you can actually talk to people on all those other networks with it.

 

iLilana

macrumors 6502a

• Jun 6, 2003

• #10

msn clones?

Fire is still way unstable but usable. Proteus works great. It's what I use for all IM exect one Aim ID which is exclusively in iChat.