| CHAT
BOXES TO EMBED INTO YOUR WEB PAGE |
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| All confirmed on 2011-09-17 by simply pasting the gadget code into the HTML of a Google sites web page, and browsing the page using Firefox running on XP 32bit SP3 | ||||
| Name = |
Yahoo Pingbox | Meebo
me |
Digsby |
Plugoo |
| SUMMARY |
I do not know how to make Yahoo Pingbox visible to all visitors. |
Meebome
is easy for visitors, and can be used on multiple sites |
Digsby
is not the easiest chat box for visitors |
Hard to use on multiple sites without a subscription |
| Problems
for visitors to the website containing the gadget |
Requires the
visitor to have
previously visited the Yahoo website, and not deleted cookies since. Otherwise, the visitor sees a white square where the Pingbox should be! |
No initial
"Type ...
here..." message, making it hard for visitors new to Digsby to know
where to type their message |
Displays an advertisement, which makes
the box slow to appear. |
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| Zooming out,
E.g. by Ctrl+-
can
cut off the text entry box |
The online...
"Type your message here"entry box is the second of four,
and therefore not as obvious as it could be.
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| The entry bvox
background is grey, making it harder for the visitor to identify the
box and see what he is typing. |
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| Size of
text seen by visitor |
10pt, but does
not increase
size as the browser is zoomed in |
10pt, but does not increase size as the browser is zoomed in | 10pt, but does not increase size as the browser is zoomed in | |
| Font of
text seen by visitor |
Compact |
Compact | Spaced
out, but I think less, rather than more readable |
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| Response to changes in Chat Client |
Switches
between "Available" and "Busy" |
Switches
when the visitor refreshes the page only |
Status
switches between "... is online" and "... is away" , and lists
any new status message |
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| After
page has not been refreshed for a while, visitor sees.. |
Says
"Your
session has been disconnected because messages have not been sent or
received in the past few minutes." |
Continues
to say ".. is offline/leave a message" |
Says
"Connection failed" or the last status message whether Digsby is
running or not. |
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| and
when he invokes his Chat Client, the owner sees.. |
The stale web page is not listed as a visitor | Stale pages remain listed, but the listing dissapears a minute or so after the page is closed |
The stale web page is not visible in Contact List | |
| Multiple chat |
Yes. widgets are named, and listed in alphabetic order. Each visitor generates an entry under that widget Name |
Yes. meebo me widgets are named, and appear in the user's Contact List in alphabetic order. Each visitor then generates a new "meeboguest number". whenever a visitor refreshes the page, the meeboguest number is bolded for 3 seconds. |
Not with the Free edition. You can chat to 5 people
if you upgrade at e6.99/month. |
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| Installation |
Install
Yahoo Messenger |
No
installation needed |
Download
and Install Digsby |
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| How
invoked by the owner |
Run Yahoo
Messenger |
Sign in to https://www.meebo.com¬
(Although I could not get
"remember me" to remember the password), or download the "Meebo
Notifier"
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Run Digsby messenger | |
| FAILING CHAT
BOXES |
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| Name = |
Plugoo |
AIM WIMZI |
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| Problem = |
Worked
with Windows Live Messenger a couple of years ago, but now WLM says
Offline, and does not communicate. |
Key generation worked in the past
but now gives...
"This WIMZI is missing the appKey
parameter so it will not work. Please use the sample code from
http://wimzi.aim.com."
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| Forum |
WIMZI problem report |
http://forum.digsby.com/search.php | ||