DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! Mathew's comments is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

Jump to original thread »
Author

Chatback widget from Google: About time

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I may not be the best one to follow in this regard, since I have a fondness for widgets and plugins (yes, Brent, I know my page is really loading slowly), but I think the Google chatback applet is a great idea. Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch seems less than impressed, and wonders why an ... Continue reading »

2 comments

  • It's close. I put it on my site, too, although since nobody goes there I haven't had much use for it. But there are a few problems:

    1. Why is it so narrow? My status messages tend to be quite a bit longer. The chat badge's proportions should be customizable (there are numbers in the html it spits out, but I don't think they work to widen or heighten it).
    2. It doesn't seem to work quite right with my browser--it tells me to install Flash version 8, which of course I have installed already. And anyway, if the google chat window in gmail doesn't necessitate Flash, why should this?
    3. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to try out a full conversation, but I believe the way it works is that when someone IMs me through the widget I get a gtalk message prompting me to open a url. Why not just channel the visitor's messages into a standard gtalk message window?

    Anyway, you're right that it's an improvement over Meebo--I don't want to keep a browser window open all the time on the off chance that somebody is going to IM me from my blog. But I don't think it's quite there yet.

    Also, while I'm here--Disqus is cool, but I believe it doesn't work with co.mments.com, which is how I keep track of comments I leave in various places. I guess I should just get over it, though.
  • Thanks for the comment, Jake.

    A number of other people have mentioned the giant link that pops up --
    I haven't had that happen. When someone starts a chat through the
    widget, it pops up in a regular GTalk chat window in my Gmail. Maybe
    it's different if you're using the GTalk standalone app.



    On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Disqus

Add New Comment

Returning? Login