Sun, 5 Feb 2017 08:31:45 +0300 ValdikSS <[email protected]> wrote:
> You want to know why? For many years XMPP was a protocol not suited > for modern mobile devices with unstable network connection. Messages > could be easily lost (and you had to ask for receiving > acknowledgement yourself in another message), battery consumption was > very high. XMPP also was barely usable on multiple devices. While we > had Message Archiving XEP since 2004, Message Carbons XEP since 2010 > and Message Archive Management (MAM) since 2012, most desktop clients > still lack support of these functions giving you frustration when you > want to access previous conversation history that was made on another > device. > > Everything has changed when Daniel Gultsch created Conversations. > That's a modern XMPP client for Android which has support for most > current XEPs. Finally we get mobile XMPP client that is usable, > reliable, supports history sync and doesn't noticably shorten battery > life and is a proper competitor for other proprietary mobile IMs. > > Still, the situation with desktop clients is unpleasant. Only one > client has Message Archive Management support (Gajim), only one has > support for outdated and rarely configured on the server side Message > Archiving support (Vacuum IM). Not even mention Gajim UI problems > that you can see previous conversation history only in "history" > menu, the chat window contains conversation history only of that > exact machine. Till now there's no client for OS X with MAM support. > Also should note that Gajim lacks MAM support for MUC. > > Not even mention SPIM and other mostly-server-side problems. You described the situation with jabber clients. They suck indeed, even Conversations has ugly UI (try push-to-talk for example) and doesn't have A/V features. But I was asking about XMPP as a protocol in general. But whatever. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
