What chat program should I be using these days to ensure maximum cross-compatibility? I suspect there isn't an answer. It used to be that I would use a jabber based chat client and I could talk to google (xmpp), msn (via a bridge), and anyone else running XMPP based services. Then MSN went to something incompatible and stupid (Skype?), and now google have gone to hangouts which is not XMPP, and I'm left with connectivity to the remaining few people still using the old google chat client. Frustrated. James
On 4/10/2013 6:32 PM, James Harper wrote:
What chat program should I be using these days to ensure maximum cross-compatibility? I suspect there isn't an answer.
It used to be that I would use a jabber based chat client and I could talk to google (xmpp), msn (via a bridge), and anyone else running XMPP based services. Then MSN went to something incompatible and stupid (Skype?), and now google have gone to hangouts which is not XMPP, and I'm left with connectivity to the remaining few people still using the old google chat client. I've recently been using Pidgin (both Win & Linux), Kopete and Telepathy (KDE's Ktp?) for communicating with people on Google chat/hangouts, MSN (Windows Live I think it is actually) and ICQ with no issues (except for MSN if I'm @ work.. that's blocked somehow). All 3 clients on a mix of Fedora, Gentoo & Kubuntu desktops. Works fine for me.
hth. cheers, - Brendon
I use Jitsi, and used the sip client a fair bit. Daniel. On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 08:32:04 +0000 James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
What chat program should I be using these days to ensure maximum cross-compatibility? I suspect there isn't an answer.
It used to be that I would use a jabber based chat client and I could talk to google (xmpp), msn (via a bridge), and anyone else running XMPP based services. Then MSN went to something incompatible and stupid (Skype?), and now google have gone to hangouts which is not XMPP, and I'm left with connectivity to the remaining few people still using the old google chat client.
Frustrated.
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Dan062 <dan062@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
I use Jitsi, and used the sip client a fair bit.
I use SIP extensively, IRC occasionally, and XMPP not at all currently. For instant messaging, XMPP is still the only widely used open standard besides IRC, which has somewhat different design priorities from instant messaging systems as such. If you want to interoperate with proprietary messaging systems, you'll have to decide which protocols you need and find out whether there are open implementations, or whether you are best served by the corresponding proprietary products.
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