JIRC: An IRC client based on websocket ====================================== Release Notes ------------- Please do not share the code without my permission. This is Beta-Software and not ready for the masses. There will be a public version with 1.0. Feel free to modify and improve the code, but please send me your improvements. Changelog --------- v0.9 - new feature: aliases - new feature: perform - improved settings dialog - many many bug fixes v0.9-beta2 - Connection-Settings will be saved now using local storage - Colors (and color stripping) are now working correctly (0000002, 0000009) - Username and realname are now filled automatically if user types in a nickname in the connection dialog - Connection dialog has now a field for server-password (0000005) - Button title of channel becomes blue on new messages, if the window stays in background (0000008) - Minor bug fixes (0000003,0000004,0000006,0000007,0000010) Known Issues ------------- - No error-handling in the backend - No error-handling in UI-dialogs - no saving of connection-settings - Only one connection per time allowed - Not multi-user ready Browser Support ---------------- In general, you need a browser with websocket-support, if you want to use an older browser without websockets, you need to have flash player >= 10 installed. - Tested Browsers: Firefox 15+ Safari 5+ Opera 12+ Chrome 18+ Installation ------------ 1. Download and install NodeJS from http://nodejs.org 2. open a terminal and cd into the JIRC-directory 3. type in "node JIRC.js" 4. that's it