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Author: Valeriy Diatchenko Last Update: April 22, 2008 - Changed the position of room contact list to be in the same tab as the buddies list. This simplifies the UI a bit. - Added my email address to the main page, in case someone needs to contact me. About: I created this utility mainly as an experiment to see how Web AIM technology can be built into a web interface. The inspiration for this was, believe it or not - mobile phones. I noticed a lot of people liked having a phone/music player combination. In this application, I reused the concept to blend what I believe are two natural siblings: chat and draw. Chatting and drawing are both visual interactions, and are used in this project to achieve a higher level of the fun-factor of online chatting. This application can also be easily used in a business environment such as a conference, where people can share diagrams or graphs and immediately draw on them to highlight their ideas. How It Works: When the application starts, the user is asked to log in using the normal AIM login page. After this is done, her user-name can be used to send and receive text and draw messages in a special format. The rest of the work is handled by the Javascript, which gracefully takes care of the user interface actions, and communication. Technologies: AJAX, web AIM interface, PHP. |
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