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<div id="weewarCorner" style="position:absolute; top:0px; right:0px; z-index:99;"><a href="http://weewar.com?referrer=alex" title="Have a little war at Weewar.com"><img style="border-width:0px;" src="http://weewar.com/images/weewar_corner_1.gif" width="75px" height="101px" alt="weewar.com corner"/></a></div>
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<h1>XHTML live Chat</h1>
<p>by alexander kohlhofer<br />
<a href="http://plasticshore.com" title="visit the plasticshore">plasticshore.com</a></p>
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<h2>chat input</h2>
<form id="chatForm" name="chatForm" onsubmit="return false;" action="">
<label for="name">your name:</label><input type="text" size="12" maxlength="30" name="name" id="name" onblur="checkName();" /> <label for="chatbarText">your message:</label> <input type="text" size="55" maxlength="500" name="chatbarText" id="chatbarText" onblur="checkStatus('');" onfocus="checkStatus('active');" /> <input onclick="sendComment();" type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
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<h2>Description</h2>
<h3>XHTML live Chat based on the XMLHttpRequest Object (ajax)</h3>
<p>For feedback and suggestions please use the <a href="http://nokahuna.com/projects/1091" title="View and add tasks for this project">No Kahuna Project</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://github.com/kohlhofer/xhtmlchat/tree/master" title="View the sources, start contributing">sources are available on GitHub</a> or you can <a href="ajaxchat.zip">download a zip archive</a>.</p>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<p>Works in latest IE(win), Firefox and Safari.</p>
<p>As a chat it would be more intuitive if the layout was following the usual chat scheme: input at the bottom, history moving upwards.</p>
<p>The frequent update cycles should be intelligent (i.e. slow down if nothing has changed or switch into a pause mode)</p>
<h3>Where do we go from here?</h3>
<p>Apart from this being a chat I can think of some more (even more useful?) applications:</p>
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<li>An advanced comment function for blogs offering immediate communication between users.</li>
<li>An advanced shoutbox.</li>
<li>A live single/multi-user publishing system.</li>
<li>A XHTML Broadcasting tool for live coverage of events.</li>
</ul>
<p>All of these could degrade gracefully if javascript is not available!</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>I have used the following resources:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest" title="baby steps to XMLHttpRequest">Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps)</a><br />
Providing all you need to know about XMLHttpRequest.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript" title="Unobtrusive Javascript">Unobtrusive Javascript</a><br />
Got me started on the whole javascript thing.</li>
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<h3>Creative Commons License</h3>
<p>This web site (including XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, all images), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.</p>
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<p>valid <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">XHTML</a></p>
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<h2>chat output</h2>
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<li><span class="name">Alex:</span>Hello there! Visit me at <a href="http://plasticshore.com">plasticshore.com.</a></li>
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