Re: Chatback widget from Google: About time

mathewi — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:57:02 -0000

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

Re: Chatback widget from Google: About time

Jake — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:26:05 -0000

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.

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