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Hi scrollaway. Thanks for the support. XMPP seems really great in a context of needing to inter-operate with other servers. However, for our use-case all communication was in a silo of a single site so this was not a major benefit to Drop-In Chat. Our team wants broad broad browser support (for legacy corporate deployments) and a well-tested client side module. BrowserChannel, which is used for gmail chat, is very wi…
Sure, but BrowserChannel is only relevant on the client. What about the server? Using XMPP would allow for external clients to connect for example.
I agree. If at some point dropinchat.com allowed for messaging between networks XMPP support would be great to add. At this point we only allowing for messaging other drop in chat users so no such protocol is needed. My only point was that we didn't "reinvent the wheel" by not using XMPP. Instead we just don't allow cross network messaging yet.