Chat prototype

[Jeff]

Hey guys what do you think about this?

http://www.wolfire.com/ui/mpchat/chat.html (Note: Safari 4 required)

[TheBigCheese]

Interesting. I don't have Safari, though, but from a technical point of view it seems sound.

What's the point of the Toggle Chat mode button?

[Jeff]

You really need to try it in Safari or it won't make any sense.

[zamzx zik]

Works smoothly!

[MoDFoX]

It's beautiful!

[Viking Zippy]

That is indeed beautiful. I can't wait to see it as an Adium message style

[Skofo]

Why Safari? Firefox works on all of the platforms you plan on supporting...

[Richie Rabbit]

I don't like safari ( feeds Chung Li a corn dog )

[Jeff]

Why Safari? Firefox works on all of the platforms you plan on supporting...

Gecko instead of WebKit in OG:

Pros:
We'd have a Linux, PPC, and 10.4 build from Alpha 1 instead of Alpha TBD

Cons:
- Gecko's support of CSS 3 is not as developed as WebKit's
- WebKit supports a number of features useful to us that Gecko does not (masks, gradients, variables, reflections, transitions, transformations, etc.)
- Gecko is not as speedy and lightweight
- We'd have to spend a lot of time developing our own Gecko embedding layer instead of leveraging Google and AJS' work

[Skofo]

Ahh, I see. I was under the impression that this used Safari-only features, not WebKit-only features. Furthermore, I didn't know there were even any WebKit-only features. My bad!

However, it doesn't seem to work with Chrome well either...

[matto1990]

However, it doesn't seem to work with Chrome well either...

Chrome uses a version of webkit that is older than safari I think.

Also that works really well. I love it

[Jeff]

It should work on Chrome on Mac OS X. To get it to work on Windows Chrome, you will need to disable the mask.

[Glabbit]

It looks beautiful, runs smoothly, and is slightly creepy.
As in, it's scary what you can make 'Jeffrey Rosen' say o.0

[hansondr]

ahh, just a load of -webkit specific CSS calls. Looks slick though

[Jeff]

Hehe, thanks I guess