They use long polling e.g. Comet to keep updating from either side. Ignore what the skin looks like the code behind jabbr uses signal r to detect users, stream messages, and provide general chat facilities. Will probably do exactly what you want.
On 4 Jul 2012, at 23:06, Tom Gao <[email protected]> wrote: It needs a lot of beating before it starts to look anything remotely like facebook chat. How do websites determine if a user is ‘online’ eg on facebook ? *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Dave Walker *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2012 7:40 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: ajax chat? Check out jabbr it might be beaten into what you want On 4 Jul 2012, at 22:36, Tom Gao <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a good facebook styled chat product or sample codes for websites? – preferably using asp.net. I’m only looking for ability to have one on one conversation as opposed to chatrooms for websites. Thanks, Tom
