Also sprach Steve Ivy [Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:20:23PM -0700] : > > At which JID should I receive these notifications? I don't really want > "so and so would like to friend you" and "your friend is now a zombie > and ate your brain" messages coming to my iChat, adium, or gaim > window. And yet, I don't really want to maintain any more JIDs than I > need to.
That is what publish-subscribe is about : you only susbscribe to the streams that you want to receive notification from. And then not all messages need to be rendered as chat on the client side. For now most XMPP clients are in fact chat clients - and the current user experience of notifications through XMPP is therefore the reception of a message from a "contact". But those notifications could also be rendered as a news stream the way we render Atom or RSS, or it could be a ticker tape, or a tray notification popup or whatever you want to develop your client as... > In addition, there's the issue of message capture by different > clients. If I *am* logged in via a chat client to the same JID that my > DiSo-enabled site is using, will I lose messages if the real-time > client is available to receive it but my "social inbox" client has not > connected recently? When server side history becomes widespread (probably through implementations of XEP-0136) this problem will cease to exist just as all my mail clients see the same messages on my IMAP server.
