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Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

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Post by hjgrtrtr »

gkoberger wrote: post #9
takno wrote: post #3

What does a Facebook app offer over just giving the website notification permissions in Chrome or Firefox?

Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.

You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#13

Post by ghayes »

hjgrtrtr wrote: post #11
gkoberger wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.

You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)

But then it's Cmd+`

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#14

Post by JBReefer »

MiddleEndian wrote: post #8

Remember when all the major IM platforms supported xmpp and you could just use pidgin/adium/trillian/your client of choice for everything at once? That was a fantastic time...

I remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#15

Post by takno »

gkoberger wrote: post #9
takno wrote: post #3

What does a Facebook app offer over just giving the website notification permissions in Chrome or Firefox?

Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.

I can see some value to a chat app, not least to hold your presence to online. It's the app for the rest of it and the Instagram app that have me confused

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#16

Post by lj3 »

JBReefer wrote: post #14
MiddleEndian wrote: post #8

Remember when all the major IM platforms supported xmpp and you could just use pidgin/adium/trillian/your client of choice for everything at once? That was a fantastic time...

I remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX

I feel that way about every windows and linux app, though. Adium on OS X was brilliantly designed. And if you didn't like the design, there were tons of skins for it.

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#18

Post by aaronbrethorst »

lj3 wrote: post #16
JBReefer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX

I feel that way about every windows and linux app, though. Adium on OS X was brilliantly designed. And if you didn't like the design, there were tons of skins for it.

Skinning support != user experience.

That said, Adium is one of the best designed OSS apps I've used.

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#19

Post by Pxtl »

hengheng wrote: post #12
electic wrote: post #2

This is exactly what I needed. Now I have a Telegram, HipChat, Slack, Skype, and now FB apps. I think my computer is complete.

Time for the next Trilian/Adium/Pidgin.

I was a Miranda fan myself. Simple, clean native windows UI. Alternately, Winphone 7 had great twitter/fb integration for contacts, feed, and IM. I'd love to see somebody make that happen again.

Re: Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

#20

Post by mwcampbell »

The real story here is that now we know what Osmeta, the stealth startup Facebook acquired a few years ago, has been up to. Look inside the installation directory for the Messenger app, and you'll find that it's using an iOS compatibility layer. Unfortunately, that's bad news in terms of accessibility for blind users, at least in its current form; this thing isn't firing any focus events. But I'm sure that can be fixed.

Edit: I referred to the Messenger app, but the same applies to the Facebook app. The Messenger app was just the one I looked at first.

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