One of the things that I hate about instant messaging clients is the lack of adherence to standards. In fact, the specification that I think should be adhered to the most, isn’t. I’ve blogged about this before, so I apologize to the planets that I am syndicated to in advance for duplicating content. [...]
So, Google is making a lot of headway with their Jabber server. They have opened up server-to-server (s2s) functionality, and they have added the vCard avatar to the user’s account. However, they lack the rest of the XML vCard spec. This includes, but is definitely not limited to:
Full name
Nickname
Birthday
Phone #
Homepage
Email
Corporation
Department
Position
Role
Street
City
State
Postal Code
Country
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There are a few things that are really starting to bother me, and they have been on my task list for some time. Trouble is, I can’t find any decent documentation on any of it, and it seems that I can’t find help. Here is what’s troubling me so far:
Setting up my personal [...]
Since Open Discussion Day, I have connected personally to Jabber as my only means of IM communication, and I haven’t looked back. I don’t miss MSN, AIM, ICQ (although I am stuck using that at work), or Yahoo!. It’s been wonderful connecting only to Jabber using my Gmail account.
Well, since connecting, I just [...]
I am getting really frustrated with encrypting conversations between differing IM clients. Why in the world does this have to be so difficult? First, let’s talk about the principle of the matter. Then we’ll get into the nitty-gritty.
Regardless of who I am talking to, regardless of what instant messaging client I am [...]
If I am beating this topic into the ground, so be it. Sometimes, you just need to beat a dead horse, regardless.
Due to the decision of switching to Jabber exclusively, I am on the lookout for a good Jabber client for Linux. In fact, a cross-platform client for Windows and Mac OS X [...]
