Hello,
KeyChat (the instant messaging client on the bn) supports
services that use the XMPP protocol. The advantage of XMPP is
that it is open, meaning it will support multiple services that
use this protocol (GoogleTalk, Jabber and IChat are the only ones
I know of that support XMPP). Unfortunately, MSN (or Windows
Live Messenger) uses a different, closed protocol. XMPP is an
emerging protocol and HW's theory was that more services such as
MSN would switch over to XMPP. But in reality, at least with
MSN, I don't think this is going to happen for a while. There
were some rumours that AIM was in talks with Google over possibly
switching to XMPP at the end of this year or in 2011, but these
rumours surfaced about a year ago and I have not heard any more
about this since. Recently, FaceBook became available via XMPP;
in theory, this shd've allowed KeyChat to access the FaceBook
Chat system. But in practice, as far as I know, no-one has been
able to get it to work with KeyChat, which seems a little strange
as I thought the whole idea of going with XMPP was that services
that used it would be instantly supported... but it appears not.
Hopefully HW will have a re-think about KeyChat and XMPP (KeyChat
does need some improvements).
Hope that made sense,
Robert (message sent from BrailleNote Apex)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Roderick" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:27:08 -0400
Subject: [Braillenote] MSN Messenger
Perhaps, someone could answer a question for me. Why isn't MSN
chat
support? Does it use a different protocol than other forms of
chat?
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