Any feedback appreciated for Ajax IRC/Telnet/games project

Re:Any feedback appreciated for Ajax IRC/Telnet/games project by philc on Monday November 26, 2007 @06:11PM (#83755)

I've wanted a good implementation of web-irc for a long time. That alone is cool enough for me.

However, the UI is really bad; I'm not sure where to begin. Once I log into an irc server, how do I play games? I remember seeing a selection for it when I first came to mibbit, but now it is gone.

When I first start chatting my messages aren't visible (because they're scrolled offscreen).

And it's really, painfully ugly. You might want to recruit a UI designer, or steal some styles from adium or xchat.

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Re:Any feedback appreciated for Ajax IRC/Telnet/games project by axod on Monday November 26, 2007 @06:14PM (#83756)

Thanks for the feedback, I'm a programmer, not a UI designer ;) I do plan on getting some decent UI design in the future.

To play games/connect to other IRC servers/etc etc just click on the 'welcome tab' again.

Not sure about the scrolling messages, the chat output will scroll as long as the scrollbar is at the bottom. If you resize the window that can sometimes affect the scrollbar position so it could have been that.

I should have explained, this isn't something I'd show end users, it's just an early stage hard to use prototype.

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