Re:Overrun With Messaging Apps
by Pxtl on Friday December 06, 2013 @05:29PM
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SnapChat makes sense because it's got the whole deletion-driven ephemral images model. That doesn't really require its own protocol, though.
Now I'm fantasizing about some kind of extensible system that allows that kind of special messaging. Making a cross-platform system for that would be hard. HTML5+JS message bodies (omg security!)? Plugin architecture? Idunno.
Re:Overrun With Messaging Apps
by Pxtl on Saturday December 07, 2013 @06:58PM
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TIL what XMPP stands for. Neat! I thought Google said they dropped it because they had trouble extending it to do the things they wanted with Hangouts... when the whole point of the protocol was extensibility? That's unfortunate.
Now I'm fantasizing about some kind of extensible system that allows that kind of special messaging. Making a cross-platform system for that would be hard. HTML5+JS message bodies (omg security!)? Plugin architecture? Idunno.