On Wed Nov 14 15:20:30 2007, Olivier Goffart wrote:
Le mardi 13 novembre 2007, Kevin Smith a écrit :
> On 13 Nov 2007, at 14:37, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > Cezary Kaliszyk wrote:
> >> I would like to inquire about an extension that would allow
the other
> >> users to see the real text that the other user is typing.
> >> ...
> >> Does any of the extensions do this or is anyone working on this
> >> thing?
> >
> > We've had discussions about this before, and more recently I
know of
> > one
> > client author who has worked on such an extension as a special
> > project.
>
> That would be me, wouldn't it? :)
>
> I did this recently for someone to use in a lab context to study
how
> people type, and just did the really stupid thing of transmitting
the
> full contents of the input buffer every X milliseconds (as long as
> they'd changed). It does the job though.
I think this is a good approach. I think we send the text every few
seconds. That would probably not be sufficient to study how people
talk, but sufficient for fun user experience. (and the receiving
client could make appears new chars one by one, slowly)
This would work fine with normal instant messaging messages (one or
two sentences), but would consume lot of brandwidth very big
messages.
FWIW, I think using this stuff over link local, or possibly LAN, is
one thing, but using it over the internet is entirely another.
Dave.
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