DeadZen

This is true, I've since realized my dream of having a web based chat that is powerful and works with im, forums and irc... and does not use java or flash... supporting opera/safari/ie/mozilla ....

Anyway when I referred to IRC as a dead protocol, I didn't mean that in the sense that it's not used anymore just that. As a whole, the web especially in business don't go anywhere near IRC.

As an example in fact I made an IRC server send messages to connected clients for the simple reason that it can send 100,000 messages (as an oper) to all the users in very short time... maybe seconds... and people can tune into channels and a bot can send them all messages at once... Any new developer to that program that I wrote for that company I worked for then, immediately thought I was nuts.

Of course they could never out perform my setup because IRC is not multithreaded but is in fact a very fast event poll system that even today outperforms most communication systems...

I've since then stopped caring about what some people think about my ideas cause you and I both know you can't please everyone all of the time... and that it was a wise decision and the problem should be theirs for not understanding it....

Either way it's been years and they're still running my IRC based news feed keyword triggered message distribution system that all the java developers heckled...

Anyway about jabber, Google does use it heavily and since they have their pick, it does make you wonder why they decided to go with that as opposed to having their own, also I didn't see any great fail over setups for it besides eJabber, which actually required me to learn some erlang...

I'm releasing that code I mentioned as open source, and I
also wanted to just reply... sorry it didn't come sooner.