On 9/23/14, 6:39 AM, Florian Schmaus wrote:
On 22.09.2014 16:10, Christian Schudt wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to implement whiteboard functionality in an XMPP client.
...
They are all in a "development-not-recommended" status and interestingly all
from the early 2000s.
I couldn't find any more up-to-date specification, except maybe XEP-0284 (which is
deferred and relatively old, too), which mentions the word "whiteboard" once.
I've also found a nice video to a Pidgin client, but they seem to use their own
protocol.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKutp4I4Zs)
Is there any recommendation from your side?
You could ask the authors of the XEPs about the reasons why there are in
a "development-not-recommend" state. I'm also interested in this
information, since I'm a big fan of XMPP based whiteboards (and
collaboration in general).
The basic problem is that the people who were working on XMPP-based
whiteboarding lost interest or got busy with other things. XEP-0284
(Shared XML Editing = SXE) was the last spec that folks were working on.
There was also some political wrangling at the time because some people
were in favor of another approach and didn't like SXE. But those people
aren't involved in our little community anymore, and in any case we need
to find the best technical solution.
Peter
