Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
Are you aware of chatzilla? It's been around for a long time. Protocols and architecture are defined in RFCs 2810-2813. Chatzilla interoperates with many other chat clients that follow those RFCs.
For the record, there's also InstantBird <http://instantbird.com/> which appears to be a multiprotocol IM client using the Mozilla code base. (I'm guessing, but have not confirmed, that it's a XULRunner app.)
Mozilla runs an Internet Relay Chat server for use by chatzilla users. It's widely and heavily used by mozilla developers and other community members. I think you'd have a difficult time convincing mozilla they need a SECOND chat client/service.
I agree with Ian here: The focus of Mozilla Messaging and of Thunderbird should be on end users in general, not Mozilla community members specifically. And the interest of typical end users would be on connecting with their friends, who are not in general on IRC but on AIM and other "consumer" IM networks. Whether it makes sense to include chat in Thunderbird is an open question, but certainly if it were to be done then it should be done as a general-purpose IM capability and not just as an IRC client.
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