Re: Web chat app over web sockets

On 4 January 2013 18:41, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> Nice app, but really bad demo of WebID.
>
> The whole point of WebID is to use the data at the WebID Profile to
> improve the UI and not to stick to the plain URI
> (  see http://webid.info/spec for the meaning of those terms. )
>
> For a  good example is to be found at http://my-profile.eu/
>
> It's been about 3 years that I tell Melvin that the minimum is to not show
> the WebID URI
> in the UI but to use the foaf file to find the users name and picture and
> use that information.
> Showing people a URI just makes WebID look stupid and a bad authentication
> mechanism.
>
> Melvin can't code that apparently in three years, even though he's hanging
> around on all the channels and knows exactly  where the code is to do that
> ( e.g.: https://github.com/linkeddata/rdflib.js )
>
> I have had undergraduate javascript starters do whole Social Web apps that
> can do
> that and more in js in a couple of months work. See for example
>
>    http://grayfoxkiller.free.fr/screencast-lifeshare.ogv
>
> and that was using tools that were in very early beta.
>
> so perhaps someone can  help Melvin do at least one demo that uses linked
> data
> a little bit more than just minor adaptations of some online web2.0
> articles.
>

Thanks for your feedback.   If I get some time free, I will work on
improving the UI.  Alternatively, if you have a patch to make things look
the way you prefer, I'll happily add it :)


>
> Henry
>
> On 4 Jan 2013, at 18:25, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had a couple of hours free so I quickly prototyped something I've been
> wanting to do for a while.   A web chat app over websockets.
>
> http://webid.im/
>
> It works over web sockets and will prepopulate your name with the webid in
> your certificate if you have one
>
> It also support multiple chatrooms by adding a subdomain e.g.
>
> http://rww.webid.im/
>
> Apologies in advance, given the time constraints, the UI is not as user
> friendly as I would like it to be, but maybe over time it an improve.
>
> Am also thinking of adding encryption or a more skype like interface which
> shows names, pictures and has sound notifications.
>
> Maybe if I get some time free, or if someone wishes to add some code, just
> let me know!
>
>
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