[Psi-Devel] Feature request: Handling of im: URIs

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Jan Vornberger wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:05:38PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Just curious: What does the im: URI scheme have to do with persistent
>> groupchats?
> 
> Oh, I should have made myself more clear here: In my experience the act
> of joining a groupchat is actually not that straightforward for the
> average newcomer to Jabber. In most clients you are asked for a host
> name and a channel name which means you need to understand that
> groupchats live on certain conference servers and how that shows up in
> its address. It is somewhat of a barrier.
> 
> If - instead - the user would be able to simply click on a website on
> a link saying 'join our groupchat' and be dropped into that groupchat
> without having to worry about where exactly this thing lives, it would
> be much more useable. Combined with a more streamlined procedure of
> 'getting jabber' (and from what I can tell the redesign of jabber.org
> seems to take a big step into this direction) I can actually see this
> being a viable way for people to set up their own chat room.
> I would imagine some community website which tells its members: Get
> Jabber (some link) and join our new exciting groupchat (some im: link)!

I agree. I think you want support for xmpp: URIs. For instance to join
the jdev room on conference.jabber.org you would click this link:

xmpp:jdev at conference.jabber.org?join

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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