On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:16:12 Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:56:37 Sergio Bessa wrote: > > What if we could have Jabber support in OpenMoko and use some sort of > > transport/relay to connect to legacy protocols? Don't you think this > > would work? This way wwe only needed one protocol implementation. > > Sure. Many of the public Jabber servers come with ICQ, MSN, AIM etc > transports. It's not entirely as straight forward to use as direct > connections to those networks in most Jabber clients, but I'm sure it could > be done that way. > > Then again, while XMPP is quite nice for normal usage on the net, maybe we > need a different protocol, namely one that is VERY bandwidth efficient (XML > is not really famous for that, a binary protocol could potentially do much > better) to keep GPRS costs low? >
There is a crowd called MXIT(http://www.mxit.co.za) that provide a mobile messaging app and service that is based on Jabber(Ejabberd if I remember correctly). What they have done though is modified the client to server protocol to make it more "efficient". Unfortunately it makes their server incompatible with other jabber clients. On the other hand they implement the normal server to server protocols so you can still chat with people on Google talk and other jabber servers. Personally I prefer the idea of trying the compression option in TLS that was suggested as we then are not changing the protocol and are therefore not limiting the number of servers we can connect to. I currently use Kopete on my desktop for my IM needs. I have it hooked up to my Google talk account, a South African Jabber server, 2 MSN accounts(1 for personal and 1 for work) and occasionally hook it to other jabber servers I test in the office. While not being efficient cost wise if we are on GPRS/3G etc, it does make life easy for me and I would like to see this sort of flexibility in Open Moko. Right now I have 3 IM apps on my Nokia N80 so that I can connect to MSN, MXIT and Google Talk. -- Rodney Arne Karlsen AKA SmilyBorg LPIC-2, Linux+ Cellphone: 083 445 0720 Website: http://smilyborg.za.net/ MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google Talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
