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Something I'm going to start working on now that my Javascript skills have gotten a little better: an AJAX IRC client. From what I can tell, nobody's done one of these yet, but with raw sockets from PHP and an RFC to work from it should be fairly achievable.
The problem I'm likely to come up against first is how I can minimise the number of round trips to the server and back. And because a reload can only be initiated from the client side, not from the server when content comes in, I'll have to set the reload frequency pretty carefully (the maximum lag will be the reload frequency plus the latency of the connection).
Something like this shows a possible interface - it's not tied into IRC though, which would be the killer feature.
The problem I'm likely to come up against first is how I can minimise the number of round trips to the server and back. And because a reload can only be initiated from the client side, not from the server when content comes in, I'll have to set the reload frequency pretty carefully (the maximum lag will be the reload frequency plus the latency of the connection).
Something like this shows a possible interface - it's not tied into IRC though, which would be the killer feature.