Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:46:22 -0400
From: HECTOR SANTOS
To: RICK WAGNER
Subject: Re: A Better WHO IS ONLINE
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<RICK WAGNER> wrote in message
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> I would also suggest an option to send an Instant Message not
> just a Chat ie. "Hi there Hector, Saw you Online and wanted to
> remind you about dinner with the other club members tonight..."
Right. That what I had on my mind.
> I would also recommend an HTML variable that allows us to show
> visitors how many users are using the CHAT system regardless what
> room they're in.
Ahhhh, I see.
> ----------------------------
> If you're going to do pictures and profiles, I suspect you're
> going to have to do a lot of re-design work of the initial "New User"
> portion of the system asking for more than just a UserName and a
Password.
> I never understood why the HTML stuff didn't mimic the existing
> ANSI/TELNET style.. but oh well.
Things were done for reasons and its serves us no justice to waste time
trying to understand this or that was done this way or that way. So I
suggest we puts the old issues aside and think of the today and the future.
:-)
If I understand you, the new pending 451.9 does have an improve WEB "new
user" sign up and a key focus was to make sure the text vs. web were
generally the same.
But there is a fundamental difference to remember (which partially explains
why the old web interface did not 100% behave the same as the text when it
came to new user signups):
Text mode is a persistent connection while WEB is not
a persistent connection.
A good example is when the text based connected user is filling in
information, at any point and the user hungup, or the connection was
disconnected. Since it was a persistent connection, Wildcat! had the easy
ability to clean up, including deleting the new user record if the signup
was aborted.
Not so clean and elegant with the WEB equivalent and using non-persistent
connections.
The details are too complex and old to go over again, but let me just state
the new version pays a lot of attention to making it common and consistent,
for example, how a bad name lookup is checked. The TEXT version was
different than the WEB version when it checked for valid characters in a
new user name. That is now a COMMON logic between the WEB and TEXT mode.
:-)
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