Trying out strophejs
So I’m going to the 25C3 in Berlin this year (my first time actually). So obviously I looked through the Schedule and found a XMPP related talk that sounded interesting:
Privacy in the social semantic web: Social networks based on XMPP.
Well, turns out they seem to do some things I’d do different (but I won’t talk about that in detail before I actually heard the talk).
Anyway at that point the idea to possibly try to write a XMPP based social networking solution was born (I actually had tried to write a social networking solution using some amount of XMPP, but it turns out that it will probably be a lot easier the other way around). I’ve some ideas on how to do that I’ll sketch out in a later blog post.
One of the ideas is to have a basic web based interface using BOSH. I’ve only used BOSH for a very basic web-chat until now and used JsJaC back then and didn’t really like it.
Now there has been some buzz about strophejs lately, so I decided to try to port my web-chat over to that to see how well that’d work.
And I have to say it worked out great. strophejs still lacks some tutorials /examples, but it was pretty trivial to find the equivalent strophejs functions for the JsJaC calls.
In case anybody is interested in the code (Disclaimer: It is probably anything but good, because as I said it’s the second time using BOSH, first time using strophejs and generally I’m not a JavaScript person) you can find it at http://cgit.babelmonkeys.de/cgit.cgi/xmppchat/, or try it under http://jabber.babelmonkeys.de.
Tags: Jabber/XMPP, JsJaC, social networking, strophejs
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