Is it possible for a browser-based irc client to work without using any gateway, that is, to communicate with the irc sever directly?
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Is it possible for a browser-based irc client to work without using any gateway, that is, to communicate with the irc sever directly?
In the future this could be done with websockets, currently only chrome supports them but they are a part of the html 5 spec. http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
This post suggests Kaazing has an in the mean time javascript work around: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252829/what-browsers-support-html-5-websocket
I’d expect that the workaround uses something like java or flash to simulate websockets.