I’ve been helping this guy from India with an Ajax / XML chat app. I wrote one ages ago, but I think it broke. So, since I’m already giving a how-to, I might as well write it down.
The AJAX integration through DWR 3 is not the main feature in Parancoe, but it's easy and funny. Let's see how simple is building a Web chat.
Chat applications are very common in social networking sites, dating sites and other web applications where you need your users to interact with each other or even to site admin.
Alright, so now that we know what a simple messenger looks like with WCF callbacks, what does it take to put one together in Silverlight? For starters
When I released PHP AJAX chat I knew that there was a problem with a few of the build of Firefox that didn’t like having SetTimeouts() outside of functions and requestobjects opening without full parameters. Well I have now fixed that and here is the patch. To install the patch do the following.
AIM (AOL Instant Messaging) is one of the most popular messenger services. AIM can be used either via the standard desktop client that you install on your Windows PC or via AIM Express (formerly known as AIM Quick Buddy)
AJAX Chat is a powerful, open source, fully customizable web chat software built with JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.
What is JSON? JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and is basically a lightweight way of describing hierarchical data. Since it is so lightweight, it makes it an ideal candidate for AJAX applications. So what does JSON look like. The JSON code our JSON AJAX Chat application will be returning will look something like this:
MSN Messenger is a freeware instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005 and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (except Windows Vista), and aimed towards home users. It was renamed Windows Live Messenger in February 2006 as part of Microsoft's Windows Live series of online services and software.
You may or may not be aware that I own a web based chat system called ScribbleHere. I recently took a look at other chat systems through Alexa to see if there was something I could learn. Here is some of what I picked up.
Ajaxlines is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of most of Ajax related articles, resources, tutorials and services from around the world.
Its purpose is to showcase the power of Ajax and to act as a portal to the Ajax development community.